Hi Guys, I sent out a post a couple days ago saying, "ok, it looks like everyone wants to keep the email list, so we will. Just remember to be polite and courteous in your postings." I even typed up some common sense guidelines with regards to postings that were included in the body of the email. I can re-send them if anyone has any questions. Did anyone actually read that? Or did it get lost in the flurry over message boards vs. email lists? One of guidelines I should have mentioned was, "please pay attention when Marissa Mika posts a new thread because it will usually have something that's directly related to Bookshare.org in it." Regardless of any confusion, we're keeping the volunteer list as it is in its current form. Thanks for the lively and spirited debate that followed. Happy New Year. As Garrison Keillor says, "Be well. Do good work. And keep in touch." Marissa -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Rui Sent: Fri 12/31/2004 10:07 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: message boards/forums Hello my fellow Bookshareians: I think by an overwhelming margin, we can consider the e-mail list safe for now. Now if we can only keep it to 50 msgs a day or under, that would be great. (just a personal opinion) Happy new year everyybody. Now, back to my regularly scheduled book validation. -- Rui Bookshare.org Informal Volunteer Scanning Page http://members.cox.net/booksharescans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 4:02 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: message boards/forums > Despite the apparent ease of navigation of the message board Guido has mentioned, I still would not like to see this list be transformed into such a board. I like getting email rather than going and hunting up a > message board just to read a given list. Immagine how much extra time and hastle would be involved if each mailing list you were on would be transformed into one of these boards. I know I wouldn't bother with any of > it unless there were a specific question I was interested in and the board had an archive that was easily searchable. Perhaps its all a matter of what one is use to. I love the www for many things. Email is not one of > them. > mary > > > > >