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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patrick McAuley</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:pholman@msn.com" title=pholman@msn.com>Peggy Holman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 22, 2000 1:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Switching to egroups</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Murli,<BR><BR>While this is going to the list, I address this
request to you as the person<BR>who started us on this experiment in decision
making. (As an aside, I think<BR>it's been instructive to observe our
process on making a collective<BR>decision. There's been a great
exchange of information, several experiments<BR>initiated. That's been
wonderful.) I think we are ready for a decision on<BR>listserv or
egroups.<BR><BR>So here's my "2 cents worth" delivered as a request to you,
Murli. The<BR>latest cries of "I'm confused" lead me to think we would
be best served by<BR>someone knowledgeable making a decision on the list's
behalf. Since you've<BR>been willing to invest the energy into this, I
think you're the right person<BR>to do it. The choice of egroups or
listserv is a technical one. Those with<BR>expertise have given you
their opinions. The only negative I heard for<BR>egroups was customer
support. In all other ways egroups sounds superior.<BR><BR>I suggest you
make a call on which way to go. If you are satisfied that<BR>support
won't be an issue, then take the 3 or 4 days to move everyone over<BR>to
egroups and put out instructions, just as you did when we
switched<BR>listservs in 1998, that tells people the new e-mail
address.<BR><BR>As I mentioned, OSI(US) can pay to make the site ad
free. Just send me the<BR>details.<BR><BR>So, there you have it. I
think the information to enable action is in.<BR>Would you be willing to take
the lead on bringing this to
closure?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Peggy<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>