Please remove me from this list Katy McKee Secretary Extended Care and Rehabilitation Service Line VA Central Iowa Health Care System 3600 30th Street Des Moines, IA 50310-5885 Phone: 515-699-5510 Fax: 515-699-5511 From: optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optimal-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Warnicki Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:53 AM To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [optimal] Welcome to the new OPTIMAL list. Welcome to the new OPTIMAL list. I just moved the entire membership of the old list over to this list. The OPTIMAL server had another power problem and a new solution needed to be found quickly. I have connected with a group, freelists.org, that will give us a list serve and I moved OPTIMAL to it until a better solution can be found. It has web, RSS and email access so once joined you can get messages with any of these methods. The link to join, change options, remove duplicate emails and review the archive is //www.freelists.org/list/optimal The list will send you a password if you enter your email address without a password. To post just send an email to optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx The list has several advantages. It is actually more like the original OPTIMAL then the last version. You can now attach images and you can also review messages using an RSS feed. It also has a digest mode. That being said it does not have all the advantages that we would want to share information. I'm still looking at other solutions which will give us more features but at least this site will have better availability. Anton and Mark have already made some suggestions for a better list, if others have ideas I would also like to discuss these. We started OPTIMAL back in 1993 with only 25 users. At that time most ophthalmic photographers shot on film and did not have email addresses. I don't have an accurate current membership since some users have multiple email addresses registered but I would guess we have between 800 and 1000 members world wide. Thank you all for participating. Joe -- Joe Warnicki J-WAR Systems Inc. 700 Carla Drive Pittsburgh, PA warnickij@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ph 412-517-8792 cell 412-327-6042