Switching to egroups

Thu Jun 22 12:36:07 PDT 2000

I really like this suggestion about polling.  I just joined the list serve and
I must say I feel a bit overwhelmed as does my in-box with all these emails.
There must be a better way to get feedback without tying up everyone's email
system.  Francoise

At 14:34 22/06/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
> At the risk of delaying a decision further, may I also suggest to Murli that,
> to get a broader sense of people's opinions on this question, you make use of
> the polling feature on eGroups?
>
> You could set up a poll that asks people a yes/no question about switching
> (more options if you wish).  This generates an email to everyone who is
> currently signed up with the OSLIST on eGroups and asks them to go to the
> OSLIST/eGroups website (a link is provided in the email) to choose their
> option.  Unlike regular postings, people's votes are not broadcast to
> everyone, though the overall results are visible on the website even while
> the poll is still open for further voting.  You can choose how long you want
> to leave the poll open, then take the results as input to the decision.
>
> While this method would not get input from those not on eGroups, it would get
> opinions from those who have seen both forms of the list.  And it would have
> the side benefit of exposing those on the new system to one of its additional
> capabilities -- this could generate ideas for more creative uses of this
> capability, but that's another tangent!
>
> Patrick McAuley
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>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <mailto:pholman at msn.com>Peggy Holman
>> To: <mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 1:52 PM
>> Subject: Switching to egroups
>>
>> Murli,
>>
>> While this is going to the list, I address this request to you as the person
>> who started us on this experiment in decision making.  (As an aside, I think
>> it's been instructive to observe our process on making a collective
>> decision.  There's been a great exchange of information, several experiments
>> initiated.  That's been wonderful.)  I think we are ready for a decision on
>> listserv or egroups.
>>
>> So here's my "2 cents worth" delivered as a request to you, Murli.  The
>> latest cries of "I'm confused" lead me to think we would be best served by
>> someone knowledgeable making a decision on the list's behalf.  Since you've
>> been willing to invest the energy into this, I think you're the right person
>> to do it.  The choice of egroups or listserv is a technical one.  Those with
>> expertise have given you their opinions.  The only negative I heard for
>> egroups was customer support.  In all other ways egroups sounds superior.
>>
>> I suggest you make a call on which way to go.  If you are satisfied that
>> support won't be an issue, then take the 3 or 4 days to move everyone over
>> to egroups and put out instructions, just as you did when we switched
>> listservs in 1998, that tells people the new e-mail address.
>>
>> As I mentioned, OSI(US) can pay to make the site ad free.  Just send me the
>> details.
>>
>> So, there you have it.  I think the information to enable action is in.
>> Would you be willing to take the lead on bringing this to closure?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peggy
>

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