From scann at jcorporate.com Wed Jun 2 12:14:37 2004 From: scann at jcorporate.com (Sandra Cann) Date: Wed Jun 2 20:10:18 2004 Subject: [Opensource] This listserv is discontinued - here's why.... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1086203673.1628.220.camel@localhost.localdomain> Dear Members As of today no further messages will be coming through the listserv. I know many of you subscribed here are not subscribed on the forums. I encourage you to take a look. You can now browse the user forums without registering. With the listserv being discontinued if you want to continue to have mail delivered to your mailbox you'll need to register onsite and subscribe to the forums of interest. Recently we had a discussion on the Expresso Users forum online about the decline in use of the listserv as of when the discussion forums had search capability. We never expected that Peter's integration of a search engine into eForum would limit the usefulness of this listserv. The listserv has had problems with the reliability of its search capability. Consequently the community voted on whether to keep the listserv (using eForum Pro's new Voting integration). The community decided that rather having two mediums for the same purpose that we should discontinue the listserv which is not serving its purpose as well as the forums online. The forums are proving far more valuable with its online search capability and threading topic capability. With the latest eForum release onsite attachments can be included with a message, and features for hot the topic is, voting on its usefulness, polling integration and subscribing to select topics. This move should also help as our email addresses are not available in the forums so should help with spam. For each project the forums are broken down into: 1. News forum: for announcements of new releases 2. Users forum: for user discussions - questions about features, how tos each 3. Developers forum: for discussion pertaining to developers who are contributing a patch or involving themselves in the feature enhancement and bug fixes Please take a online using the Forums link on the header or on any project page. We look forward to seeing you online. Again as of today no further messages will be coming through the listserv. Sandra Cann COO