For starters, check out the Yahoo lists; I am sure you will find all kinds of lists on all kinds of hardware, applications, workflows, and processes. There are a number of lists on Photoshop CS alone.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brad Davis Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: List future Tony, Thanks for your response. The past day or so has been an education for me. Initially, my concern was fueled by the fact that I needed some information (cleaning my Polaroid SS4000) and the concern that it might not have been available if I waited a little longer- that the list might have gone away. You've taken care of that concern. In part, because I much enjoyed reading the list when there was more activity, I asked if there was a way to get it moving again. I am convinced that my suggestion was the wrong direction, that leaving it as it is will suit all of us just fine. As to what kind of list I would like in addition - I feel that I am most behind the curve on various programs for image processing. I use Photoshop CS, and while I find it very useful, I keep coming across comments that this or that software does some things (even many things) better or easier or...? There is no way that I am going to be able to try even several of the better programs out there, any more than I am likely to try several different scanners. If anyone know of a list that addresses this topic - not an Adobe list, but one that is outside the vendors, that gets comments that are fully independent, I would like to go join such. If it doesn't exist as I have defined it, then it would be my candidate for a new list. Thanks again for this list, Tony, and for your clear headed thoughts on the topic of the future of this list. -- Brad " Oh nooo! I never meant to be quoted for something so stupid. I feel like the president now." Carolina Robinson On 9/9/04 16:00, "Tony Sleep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, here's how I see it. > > 1. This list, like all lists, has a natural lifespan. A bit like a sun > past-its-best-by-date, it's now becoming a red dwarf. It'll probably be a > black hole in 10 years. > > 2. It's still useful to have a dedicated reference forum in one place, for > as long as there are filmscanners around. Even if traffic is negligible, it > may be tomorrow that any of us needs the conduit to the expertise of > others. > > 3. It suits me fine that it's quiet, less admin, no bandwidth problems, > little cost:) > > 4. Lists tend to be most useful when precisely focussed and not polluted > with OT wibble and squabbles about OT wibble. Widening the scope of this > list would only dilute that utility and risk driving away those who don't > share precisely the same interests, thereby diluting the usefulness of this > list for its primary purpose. If lists aren't useful, people leave. > > 5. Yes, it's absolutely true that dig.imaging is like the Chinese proverb: > you lift one blade of grass and up comes the whole field. And it's huge. So > it's a struggle to keep any list within sensible bounds, as what starts out > as a question about funny colour can instantaneously explode in 15 > different directions, ranging from film technology to lab standards, to > scanners, software, technique, monitors and calibration, colour management, > and print technologies, inksets, profiling yada yada.... Any one of those > single topics is a PhD level career for someone, and a busy list. > > 6. Given that I don't want to dilute this list, I am prepared to start one > or more others as well, so the community can potentially remain intact. > BUT: (a)not everybody who's in filmscanners will want to join a new list > (b)there is no point - and mutually destructive - to set up a new list > that replicates the interest area of another list that already exists. It's > far more useful to have know-how concentrated in one place. > > 7. So what areas are candidates for a new list(s)? I'm wary of jumping in > with a reinvention of epson_inkjet because that list required industrial > scale servers and bandwidth to sustain its traffic levels. It's not > surprising it died, the economics are ruinous. > > Regards > > Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > ---------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or > body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.749 / Virus Database: 501 - Release Date: 9/1/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. 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