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

[Larry - Ohio Time]

Mr. Larry,

I think it is all well and good to update how we do things.

So lets have you change from AOL, to something new. You should have a POCA
email account.

AOL Keyword of the day is, it's dead!!! PS CompuServe is out too.

Seeing AOL in 2014 is like seeing a guy with an AARP t-shirt in a pickup
bar.


Larry (who loves ya) - Cleveland


-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Larry Finch
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 1:51 AM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Is it ... finally ... time to Sunset this email list?

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