Still, the way this discussion played out is very telling about the attitudes and opinions of the members of this list.
The responses and discourse were full of misinformation and just borderline disrespectful. It’s a shame. -- Edmund White On 7/13/15, 8:07 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Allan Irving" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >I wasn’t aware there was an IRC channel so that does change everything. > > >> On 13 Jul 2015, at 14:00, Warner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> To be fair, Slack would replace IRC if anything. The mailing list >>serves >> as a separate and complementary purpose. >> >> I suspect Allan may not have been aware of or participated on the IRC >> channel. >> >> Apples, oranges -- all that. >> >> >> >> Warner >> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:50:53AM -0400, Allan West([email protected]) >>wrote: >>> On 2015/07/12 04:58, Allan Irving wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists? I am >>>>of the belief that it would be far better and also has more features >>>>than email. >>>> >>>> http://slack.realm.io is an example of how easy it is for users to >>>>sign up - much like Mailman offers a sign up screen. >>>> >>>> Allan >>> >>> I have to use email every day, therefore I prefer to get information >>> through email. The cool toy of the week (usenet, gopher, AOL, web, IRC, >>> MySpace Twitter, Facebook, whatever) comes and goes, but mailing list >>> messages always gets to me. >>> >>> I don't have time to pull data (i.e. "follow") on any regular basis. >>> Unless you can push to me, I'll never hear you. >>> >>> But what do I know? I only unplugged my VCR this past weekend. >8^) >>> (another) Allan >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
