Re: admin: new list name
- From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:29:18 -0700
Jim,
I have a one word answer for you on that question:
Y! E! S!
the reasons will take more room, but if your willing to read them I think
you will find my reasons compelling;
1. choice, as has been stated, the grouping on programming-LAW is different
than here, and we tend to get a lot more of the "newbie's", the environment
is different here and so is the level and type of help.
2. it prevents what happened to jfwlite from happening, Debbie died, and
luckily her husband has been gracious enough to keep the site running "in
her memory", but there are no, and I do mean no! updates being done to the
page, so while its still a phenomenal resource, some of the stuff on it is
getting dated, and one of these days many applications there will be good
only to those folks who can't upgrade due to finances (please don't start
that debate again!), and the rest of us will be back to trying to hunt down
applications that will be accessible and work on vista and beyond on our
own, instead of being able to find them on one resource site. and one of
these days the good gentlemen may decide that he has maintained his wife's
legacy long enough, and let it go, bad news for all those who make use of
it.
3. all eggs in one basket syndrome; if you were to pass on suddenly as
Debbie did, does anyone have the URL's and passwords needed to set up a new
monitor, or will our list go the route of the jfwlite list (the other one
based off of Debbie's site) with no one able to take it up and maintain it?
if that happens, yes there is an alternative, but it would be a great loss
to us, those who prefer this list, and if programming-LAW were to close in a
similar fashion, then poof, a set of valuable resources would be gone, with
a very few of us being able let alone willing to recover any of it, I know I
don't even have all the addresses of everyone I have responded to, since
that's several hundred people, and I do like to be able to navigate my
address book in less than a hour.
4. I like this list, yes there are a few persons here that I find annoying,
of course there are with out a doubt some here that find me annoying as
well, and occasionally someone will show up that I outright can't stand, but
over all, I love this list, I am known, and I know a lot of the folks out
here, I am comfortable with them over all, and I know the type of help I
will get out here. on another list I am not known, will not know so many of
the people, and don't know the bloke/lass running the list, which, I
although I do disagree with him at times, like the heap big head honcho of
this list, smile. also, I'm somewhat known out here, which means my grab
bag site is known for what it has, and that it is a resource, and although I
wouldn't mind being known more widely by anyone on both lists referring
folks to it, if I had to move lists, a resource would go into a temporary
limbo, because most folks on the P-LAW list don't know me from a bum on a
corner, so would be reluctant to go to my site unless there need for
something I have there is really profound.
5. vast resources that are available from these lists; you have seen it as
many times as I have my friend, cross posts to several or all the lists you
run because it's fairly certain that some sort of answer will come off of
one of them, even if it's not the "proper list" for that question. you've
been great about letting them run a few replies if its not on topic for that
list, and we appreciate it, or at least I do, and I'm sure that others do as
well.
ok, I'll climb down from the podium for now and let someone else speak,
inthane
----- Original Message -----
From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:17 AM
Subject: RE: admin: new list name
Hi,
Is this list necessary since we have program-l?
Thanks.
Jim
James D Homme,
Usability Engineering
Highmark Inc.
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
412-544-1810
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