Hi,
Yes that’s true and helpful links to remind people of every so often though I
was speaking in more general terms for lists in general across various email
list platforms (smile).
Take good care,
Robin
From: David Goldfield
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 12:22 AM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Re: Christmas Greetings, End of Year Updates,
Administrivia, etc.
Robin,
First, thank you for your very kind words of support.
Yes, you're correct. A user can set themselves for nomail or vacation mode to
temporarily stop receiving emails from the list without completely
unsubscribing. This can be done via Freelist's Web interface at
https://www.freelists.org/list/blind-philly-comp
Vacation mode is also explained at this link
https://www.freelists.org/wiki/doku.php?id=vacation_mode
On 12/15/2018 12:00 AM, Robin Frost wrote:
Hi David,
Firstly I’d like to wish you and your family all the best throughout this
sacred season and the coming year; and I’d like to thank your family for
sharing you with us as they do.
Secondly I’d like to congratulate you on your new position. It makes me
proud to see how many blind people are participating in making services better
for so many of us all through their daily work and commitment to the community
as volunteers too. As such I’d like to express my gratitude for this list and
the welcoming tone you and all the other participants bring to it and to all of
those of us who comprise its members.
You briefly spoke of joining and leaving lists as I’m sure we all have done
and will continue to do. I just wanted to interject another related thought
however just from an administrative point therein. I.E. people can always go no
mail for a time thus maintaining their membership on a given list so that
should they need its resources in the future they’d not need to subscribe again
they could just resume mail to see any responses to their posts or could
monitor a list through its online portal should it have one.
Again just another tool in the available toolbox to make use of from time to
time.
Again all the best blessings to you and your family and all list participants.
Take good care.
Robin
From: David Goldfield
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 11:12 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Christmas Greetings, End of Year Updates,
Administrivia, etc.
1. I'd first like to start out by thanking all of you for continuing to
subscribe to this mailing list. There are a ton of mailing lists out there and
I appreciate that you chose this particular one for reading as well as for
asking questions and sharing information with others. The list has continued to
stay rather small during the past year but I think I almost prefer that to a
high-traffic list with hundreds of messages per day.
2. I'd also like to thank those of you who chose to call in during our
bimonthly phone meetings. Your time is valuable and I am humbled that many of
you choose to give up some of that time calling in to a phone meeting when
there are plenty of other things you could be doing. The phone meetings, as
well as the list, will continue throughout 2019 as long as there is sufficient
interest. The meetings are scheduled bimonthly, with our next meeting scheduled
for January 25. As always, they are conducted during the last Friday at 8:00 PM
Eastern time.
3. I'd like to emphasize that your contributions to the list and to the phone
meetings are always welcome and appreciated. As long as it's related to
blindness technology any topic, question or comment is more than welcome. I am
grateful for questions from the most basic to the incredibly complex. (I'm not
promising that I'll be the one to answer all of them, of course.) <smile>
Remember, also, that there's no such thing as a stupid question! This list, as
well as the phone meetings, is all about sharing what we know with others.
4. As always, feel free to invite others to join the list. The address to
subscribe is
blind-philly-comp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
In the subject type
subscribe
and send the message. Incidentally, anybody who feels the need to unsubscribe
can send a message to the same address, putting the word unsubscribe into the
subject field. I don't take it personally if people choose to leave the list.
To be honest, I find that I unsubscribe from lists as frequently as I join
them. Because I'm using JAWS more at home I've joined some additional lists,
most of them related to JAWS, so that I can not only ask questions about issues
I may be experiencing but so that I can learn more about JAWS and Windows from
others. However, I'm sure that, after a while, I will likely leave some of
those lists when I need a bit of a break.
5. If any of you have ideas for presentations you'd like to conduct for a
phone meeting please don't hesitate to reach out to me at
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and let me know about your idea. If you know someone
who might be interested in doing a presentation for us please invite him or her
to contact me so we can talk about their idea. When I was working part time I
had more time to pursue finding speakers and presenters for phone meetings but,
with my current role being full time, I don't have the time that I used to have
for finding and contacting potential guest speakers.
6. On a personal note there has been a positive change regarding my current
role with Comcast. When I first began working for them I was actually a
contractor. Technically, I started out not as an employee of Comcast but as a
contractor, being an employee of a company called Intepros Consulting. Intepros
hired me to work at Comcast full time. This was an arrangement which was more
than satisfactory for me as I was receiving a regular salary along with health
benefits and so I was actually quite happy being a contractor. However, I was
recently approached with the option for what they call conversion, meaning that
I would go from being a contractor to being an employee of Comcast. I accepted
Comcast's offer and, as of November 12, I have been a full time employee of
Comcast and am no longer with Intepros Consulting. My role, however, is still
the same and so very little regarding my actual day to day work has changed as
I am still a user acceptance tester with Comcast's accessibility team.
7. A while ago I wrote a very, very, very long post discussing my experiences
of installing the home annual license of JAWS after using NVDA almost
exclusively for nine years, as well as my reasons for making that decision. I'm
nearly finished composing a follow-up post with some additional experiences and
impressions of JAWS 2019. I plan to complete it within a week and will share it
with the list when I've published it to my blog. To summarize, I'll say that
there's a lot about JAWS that I like, particularly its productivity tools which
I still find useful and attractive. However, during certain times I continue to
use NVDA, a product I will always recommend, use, endorse and support.
8. Finally, for those of you who celebrate it I would like to wish you a
joyous, blessed and a merry Christmas as well as a healthy 2019!
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
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