Re: [lopsa-discuss] Emory University re-imaged *everything* by accident

2014-05-16 Thread Chase Hoffman
That seems like a Resume Generating and/or Career Limiting Event. Also, that's the stuff of my nightmares. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Gilbert Wilson wrote: > A friend just sent this along to me: this is the kind of thing that > nightmares are made of. Hopefully they recover quickly, can

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What does LOPSA do?

2014-05-16 Thread Chase Hoffman
> > *On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Chase Hoffman > > wrote:* >> >> *I asked this in the other thread - what advocacy? For what? Against >> what?* >> >> >> *I've never seen LOPSA take a position on anything publicly.* >> > > > *It's so easy to beat up on LOPSA or its leadership. And I think that

[lopsa-discuss] Emory University re-imaged *everything* by accident

2014-05-16 Thread Gilbert Wilson
A friend just sent this along to me: this is the kind of thing that nightmares are made of. Hopefully they recover quickly, can repair customer relationships, and write one hell of a post-mortem for the rest of us. http://it.emory.edu/windows7-incident/ Gil -- Gilbert Wilson @boyonwheels ___

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Shrdlu
On 5/16/2014 10:11 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: I still think we should send a email to all past members once a year, unless they specifically ask us to stop doing so. Once a year is low enough that it isn't spam, and good enough to remind people who ignore all other reminders because they were too

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 2014-05-16 09:47, Brian Bilbrey wrote: On 5/16/14, 11:24 :21AM, Susan Baur wrote: I think maybe a 3 month after expiry and a six month after reminder, provided the person is still subscribed to one of the lopsa lists. If they've unsubscribed, chances are they really want out and it would not

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 2014-05-16 10:08, Shrdlu wrote: On 5/16/2014 9:02 AM, Josh Smift wrote: Please do NOT start sending such things out on a regular basis. I've remained on the list, even though I'm no longer a member, for various reasons, but would find it unpleasant to suddenly be receiving reminders of this s

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Derek Balling
On May 16, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Shrdlu wrote: > Seriously, this is not a profitable use of your time. Pedantically: Neither is delivering you messages from a distribution list, if you're not paying the organization that does so. ___ Discuss mailing l

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Shrdlu
On 5/16/2014 9:02 AM, Josh Smift wrote: Please do NOT start sending such things out on a regular basis. I've remained on the list, even though I'm no longer a member, for various reasons, but would find it unpleasant to suddenly be receiving reminders of this sort. "For $50, you can become a m

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Josh Smift
s> Please do NOT start sending such things out on a regular basis. I've s> remained on the list, even though I'm no longer a member, for various s> reasons, but would find it unpleasant to suddenly be receiving s> reminders of this sort. "For $50, you can become a member; for $20, we'll stop askin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Shrdlu
On 5/16/2014 8:43 AM, Derek Balling wrote: Here's an idea: Part 1 - Add "alias" storage to lopsa.org (so you can add e-mail addresses which are associated with you but which aren't where we send notices, and aren't made public) Part 2 - Any e-mail address subscribed to one of our mailing lists

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Simmons
That's a good idea. Right now, you can have as many email addresses listed as you want in your LOPSA profile (and you can make it public or not, if I remember correctly). So that part's easy. The other part is something I've been working on, as I said in this thread or another, but I'm waiting on

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Brian Bilbrey
On 5/16/14, 11:24 :21AM, Susan Baur wrote: I think maybe a 3 month after expiry and a six month after reminder, provided the person is still subscribed to one of the lopsa lists. If they've unsubscribed, chances are they really want out and it would not be right to harass them. That sounds l

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Derek Balling
Here's an idea: Part 1 - Add "alias" storage to lopsa.org (so you can add e-mail addresses which are associated with you but which aren't where we send notices, and aren't made public) Part 2 - Any e-mail address subscribed to one of our mailing lists that isn't either and e-mail or an alias f

Re: [lopsa-discuss] paid members

2014-05-16 Thread Susan Baur
I think maybe a 3 month after expiry and a six month after reminder, provided the person is still subscribed to one of the lopsa lists. If they've unsubscribed, chances are they really want out and it would not be right to harass them. --Susan On May 15, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Matt Simmons wrote:

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What does LOPSA do?

2014-05-16 Thread Michael Tiernan
On 5/16/14 12:13 AM, Matt Disney wrote: > It's so easy to beat up on LOPSA or its leadership. I want to say, that from *my* perspective, all efforts, save one or two isolated ones (in these recent conversations) have been positive and seem to all be done in an effort to move the boat along in a pos