On 3/20/2013 1:29 PM, Susan Kline wrote: > Joe, I agree. I felt that the choice of date was insulting > rather than humorous, especially added to the lack of notice > and the continuing lack of explanation of their rationale for > closing the mailman list at all. And it was intentionally as insulting as they could make it, to show "who's in charge". > One can say, "no harm done, Googletech will just take over > for the mailman users", but I think that misses the point. What > had been, just two years ago, a relatively unified and simple > setup -- CAUT, pianotech, and PTG-L -- is now fragmented beyond > retrieval. This was also one of my initial objections, along with the sadly obvious dysfunctions. Lots of little fiefdoms, each with a resident sage holding forth to his personal minion. Come the revolution, we'll all be generals. > It seems to me this came about because the people making the > decisions did not understand the concept of critical mass -- > there have to be a certain number of people having a discussion > for it to work right -- and also were not dedicated to transparency > in how these decisions were made and announced. They proved, literally years ago, that they don't care how, or even if the lists work. They got the member max they wanted. > As a nod to the new order, I'm cross-posting this to PTG-L. Empty gesture, like my response. If they were reachable, it wouldn't have happened in the first place. Ron N
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