[23203] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Hotel Rooms Yahoo! Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine L. Rossman)
Wed Nov 20 00:35:55 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 21:35:49 -0800
Reply-To: "Christine L. Rossman" <corporateslave@YAHOO.COM>
From: "Christine L. Rossman" <corporateslave@YAHOO.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <266FB6CF.326A3A0D.002124AA@cs.com>
In this case, the benefit of the database function to view the
availability of or need for rooms makes a Yahoo group preferable to a
listserv. That makes it a whole lot easier than sifting through a ton
of e-mails.
Christine Rossman
Alpha Delta Eta Alum/Advisor
Section 88 Staff
Life Member
--- Robert Dean <rdean71@CS.COM> wrote:
> I've been beating this general kind of drum for years, usually
> prefaced with "this may sound odd coming from a hard-core computer
> geek, but..."
>
> Technology for technology's sake defeats its own purpose. Instead of
> making life simpler, it increases overhead. In this case, an
> administrator has to manage each list, and each user has to manage
> all the lists they're subscribed to. It may segregate discussions
> from the main list or keep people from having to subscribe to the
> main list, but often the main list is hardly used and, as a result,
> neither of those reasons is really an issue.
>
> That being said, however, I think that on this particular issue, I
> think there could be a sufficient amount of noise generated on the
> list to warrant segregating this discussion.
>
> LFS,
> Robert
>
> "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@VCU.EDU> wrote:
>
> >This might be kind of a dumb question, but is it really necessary to
> set
> >up a whole new yahoo! group (listserv) to handle this? What's wrong
> with
> >our existing lines of communication?
> >
> >Sometimes I get the feeling that there's a bit of
> >APO-information-overload here, with only about 18 gazillion
> listservs,
> >forums, etc,... And granted, I'll admit I'm sort of an internet
> >techno-geek myself of sorts, but perhaps if there were more people
> on
> >fewer lists, there would be more meaningful discussions?
> >
> >Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> >Derek J. Cashman (derek.cashman@vcu.edu)
> >Treasurer & Voting Delegate; Alpha Delta Iota Chapter; Alpha Phi
> Omega
> >Communications Coordinator; Section 83; Alpha Phi Omega
> >Graduate Student, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
> >MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University
> >
> > _____
> >
> >"A Drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a
> >publishable, scientific paper."
> >
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