Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Forum Format

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 18 Feb 2008

I support you, Mark--there seems to be a disproportionate anti-technological reactionary movement against your proposal that might really be nothing more than an attempt to try to justify the fact that no one wants to do all the work involved in moving. I think it would be a great idea, but I wouldn't want to move all that stuff, either.

----- Original Message ---- From: Mark R. Harris < brokerharris@gmail.com> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:25:05 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Forum Format

                  Well, so much for the purported "collegiality. "

Hey, if there's no support for it, there's no support for it. But I can't say as my chewing-out here this morning would encourage anyone to come forward with possible improvements again.

Mark

On 2/18/08, Brian Thornton <tieresias@worldnet. att.net> wrote:
>
> Mark R. Harris wrote:
>
> "But I'll get off my soapbox now. Here's a prediction: within two years
> from
> today (one year is more likely), the group will either have migrated to
> the
> sort of format I describe, or been significantly rivaled by a group that
> does."
>
> Then he further wrote:
>
> "You guys keep saying that the general membership is in favor of the
> status
> quo, but I'm not convinced that you're right. As people get more exposure
> in
> other groups to the functionalities I've described, I suspect that they
> will
> want them. I know I do."
>
> Hey Mark- is this one of those instances where you'd like to be able to go
> back and edit your earlier post, you know, the one where you promised to hop
> off your soapbox and then apparently forgot what you'd said previously?
>
> This thread is hilarious, by the way. I haven't heard one member of Rara
> Avis' supposed "Great Silent Majority" chiming in supporting your position
> that "they" all want this.
>
> Who knows though? I could be wrong. And if we were on vBulletin instead of
> clunky ol' Yahoo!, I'd be able to come back later and edit this posting to
> reflect my change of heart, saying, "I never said that!"
>
> Is it just me, or does that not just give off the slightest odor of
> Orwellian Newspeak?
>
> All the Best-
>
> Brian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark R. Harris
> To: rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com <rara-avis-l% 40yahoogroups. com>
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:35 AM
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Forum Format
>
> You guys keep saying that the general membership is in favor of the status
> quo, but I'm not convinced that you're right. As people get more exposure
> in
> other groups to the functionalities I've described, I suspect that they
> will
> want them. I know I do.
>
> Mark
>
> On 2/18/08, JIM DOHERTY <jimdohertyjr@ yahoo.com <jimdohertyjr% 40yahoo.com> >
> wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > Re your comment below:
> >
> > "Not meaning to be belligerent about this :), but with
> > other web-based formats that are more advanced than
> > the rather primitive Yahoo Groups, you
> > can have the very broad range of personalized
> > functionalities I have described, including the
> > ability to receive emails but **only** the emails
> > you want to receive. Let me put it this way: if
> > formats exist (as they clearly do) that would allow
> > rara-avis-l members to do all that, what argument is
> > there for us not availing ourselves of them? I'm just
> > not getting it."
> >
> > I think there's a sense here that the current system
> > works, and if it ain't broke don't fix it.
> >
> > And, of course, it goes without saying that any system
> > that would give members the option of avoiding having
> > to read my endless repetitins of all that is wrong
> > with Altman's THE LONG GOODBYE should be resisted to
> > the last drop of blood.
> >
> > JIM DOHERTY
> >
> > ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _
> > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.
> > http://www.yahoo. com/r/hs
> >
> >
>
> --
> Mark R. Harris
> 2122 W. Russet Court #8
> Appleton WI 54914
> (920) 470-9855
> brokerharris@ gmail.com <brokerharris% 40gmail.com>
>
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-- 
Mark R. Harris
2122 W. Russet Court #8
Appleton WI 54914
(920) 470-9855
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