RE: [PIUG List] [piug wiki] PIUG Space > Consideration of replacing the PIUG Discussion List with the Wiki Discussion Forum

Tom,

 

I'm reminded that when the PIUG discussion list migrated from DialMail
to the Internet back in 1990-something, we had the messages cross-posted
for a couple of years. In that case, we were waiting for people to get
access to the Internet, but maybe seeing emails like yours on PIUG-L
will help people get accustomed to the idea of the Wiki and migrate
themselves.

 

Edlyn

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From: Tom Wolff [mailto:piugwikimaster_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:11 PM
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Subject: [PIUG List] [piug wiki] PIUG Space > Consideration of replacing
the PIUG Discussion List with the Wiki Discussion Forum

 

Consideration of replacing the PIUG Discussion List with the Wiki
Discussion Forum
<http://wiki.piug.org/display/PIUG/Consideration+of+replacing+the+PIUG+D
iscussion+List+with+the+Wiki+Discussion+Forum?focusedCommentId=4981339#c
omment-4981339>

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<http://wiki.piug.org/display/~admin>

 

Pat:

Thank you for your posting on PIUG-L and copying it to the wiki forum.
You have provided a good summary of advantageous wiki forum features and
benefits as well as a sense of some of the difficulties with having two
communication media.

I don't have any magic, but I will offer to forward all PIUG Discussion
Forum contributions-new topics and replies-to PIUG-L. In that way, all
subscribers to PIUG-L would also receive email messages containing
unique new content in the discussion forum. Those messages would also
have active links so that PIUG-L recipients could choose to view the
whole discussion thread online and reply thereon rather than within
PIUG-L. The only drawback I see is that people who both watch the wiki
forum and subscribe to PIUG-L would get two email messages for
everything posted on the forum; from them I ask for patience as we try
to demonstrate the wiki forum to those who haven't registered yet. I
will try avoid forwarding content originally on PIUG-L such as your
posting above.

I am starting the forwarding process with this reply to your message. I
would anticipate doing this for some limited transition period as PIUG
and the Board decides what to do with the replacement and transition
issues.

Tom

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