[DeTomaso] Is it ... finally ... time to Sunset this email list?

[Larry Finch]

All,

Some of you will read this in your inbox, others in the archives. 

Others will never see it.

I think this AOL/Yahoo/etc. issue is a rather hard-to-ignore HEADS UP that the POCA Mailman-based email forum has finally reached a point where it should be put on a Sunset time line by the POCA officers.

We have in place (Thanks, Mark McWhinney and all the others that have rebuilt it after the hacker attack) a perfectly functional online forum at the POCA website. It can be used today, and fine-tuned as time allows and needs require. As it is NOT email based, it is not affected by the recent "where is my post" issue.

I have noticed that our very own POCA Prez is presently active on that forum. ;-)

Or we can stay in the 80's (or whenever Mailman was born) and resign ourselves to similar issues repeating in the years to come as Mailman remains stagnant and current internet protocols advance and eventually change to the point that the daily POCA email list activity is comprised of emails from just several dozen members whose ISP hasn't followed what AOL did in late April.

The rest of us would try to keep current with daily visits to the archives...as long as THAT remains operational, that is.

Sound promising?

Most of us upgrade our cars and we do so because the improvements create better performance and enjoyment.

Its time to do the same with the POCA online forum.

I think Sunsetting the Mailman-based list would make a very timely and appropriate agenda topic for the POCA chapter Presidents' meeting at the Fun Rally later this month.

YMMV

Larry
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   All,
   Some of you will read this in your inbox, others in the archives.
   Others will never see it.
   I think this AOL/Yahoo/etc. issue is a rather hard-to-ignore HEADS UP
   that the POCA Mailman-based email forum has finally reached a point
   where it should be put on a Sunset time line by the POCA officers.
   We have in place (Thanks, Mark McWhinney and all the others that have
   rebuilt it after the hacker attack) a perfectly functional online forum
   at the POCA website. It can be used today, and fine-tuned as time
   allows and needs require. As it is NOT email based, it is not affected
   by the recent "where is my post" issue.
   I have noticed that our very own POCA Prez is presently active on that
   forum. ;-)
   Or we can stay in the 80's (or whenever Mailman was born) and resign
   ourselves to similar issues repeating in the years to come as Mailman
   remains stagnant and current internet protocols advance and eventually
   change to the point that the daily POCA email list activity is
   comprised of emails from just several dozen members whose ISP hasn't
   followed what AOL did in late April.
   The rest of us would try to keep current with daily visits to the
   archives...as long as THAT remains operational, that is.
   Sound promising?
   Most of us upgrade our cars and we do so because the improvements
   create better performance and enjoyment.
   Its time to do the same with the POCA online forum.
   I think Sunsetting the Mailman-based list would make a very timely and
   appropriate agenda topic for the POCA chapter Presidents' meeting at
   the Fun Rally later this month.
   YMMV
   Larry