[evtech] Re: EVTECH Old vs EVTECH New lists: We need to make a decision as a group.
- From: John Scrivner <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: evtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:01:12 -0500
Could someone please send out the link and instructions for joining the
original Evtech list? It is never a good idea to allow one person to control
all the access to email lists for an entire industry. I have seen the end
result of this in another industry and it is really bad. Good people can
make bad choices so there needs to be more than one person at the controls
for your industry. I will be moving my list membership from this list to the
original Evtech list. I mean no disrespect to the administrator of this
list. I simply do not want to see one guy running it all.
John Scrivner
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Martin K <martin.klingensmith@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:02 PM, eric@xxxxxxxxx <eric@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Okay everybody, we have a bit of a problem.
>>
>> As many of you are aware, the EVTECH list has been down for several
>> days, and it appeared unlikely it would ever return under it's current
>> administration. Recently, there has been discussion on the EVDL list
>> about creating a new EVTECH list on a different server.
>>
>> Well, we *do* have a new EVTECH list (evtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx), but now
>> the old list (evtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is back, and some people
>> have expressed concern about "splitting" the list. Personally, I'm
>> for using the new list. Here's how I break it down:
>>
>> "OLD" EVTECH List: Well established, but spotty uptime. This last
>> outage was long, and didn't seem to have an end in sight.
>> "NEW" EVTECH List: Already has new members that weren't on the old
>> list, who had heard about it on the EVDL. I'm told that freelists.org
>> has good uptime.
>>
>> I think that splitting the list up is about the worst thing we can do.
>> I'd like to know what everyone thinks. I'm don't have any control
>> over either list in any way, but I do care about the future of EVTECH,
>> and I think we should figure this out, and act together as a group.
>>
>>
>
> There was (I thought) significant discussion on the EVDL while EVTECH was
> still down, that we should move/start a new list at a new provider. David
> Roden (EVDL admin) set up the freelists.org account for EV tech.
> I don't care a lot whether it stays at evtech.org or freelists.org, but I
> do think the list should be open and available, and if not, we should know
> why. Sheer doesn't get thanked very well for hosting the list. I know it's
> not a glamorous job, but; he should let us know if he's going to randomly
> pull the plug for a week at a time. It is for that reason that I think the
> list members should move on.
> --
> Martin K.
>
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