The FP Room - yay or nay?

[Don Bush - IS Manager]

I don't use the FP room much. Actually only a couple of times.  
each time is has been of great help.  Last time we were having problems
trying to figure out some epson print command so I got into the room and
Jim pointed use in the right direction.   As a I.T. Manager and developer, I 
think it's a good tool.  

Don

Quoting John Esak <john at valar.com>:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to hold a simple tally of yay's. Let's forget the nay's...
> let's forget the politics, negativism, anti-MS'ism, all of that stuff
> which
> we all can get into so easily here.
> 
> The FP Room hit it's 2nd birthday this past week. Barring one serious
> T1
> failure that lasted about 6 hours one day, I don't believe it has been
> off
> the air for more than 5 minutes any of that entire two years. Lots of us
> use
> the room religiously, and some of you just periodically. Some very
> rarely,
> but you do show up when you need a hand, or just want to talk at odd
> times... about filePro or anything. I would like to hear from those of
> you
> who use the FP Room *and* this mailing list as well. Does the FP Room
> add
> to, or detract from this mailing list? Is it helpful? Should it stay
> around?
> Is it worth the rather enormous effort of the various people who give
> so
> much time so generously to its working and well being?
> 
> So happens, I've just reorganized my entire system, servers, software,
> hardware, etc. the whole shebang. Within 3 days (by the 15h) I have to
> make
> a decision on the actual talk room server I use. Upgrade or fall back...
> The
> cost is essentially astronomical to go one way or the other... that
> isn't so
> much the issue. I just want to learn whether I should change the
> complexion
> of the room, or add a room or rooms, to reflect more what people like
> to
> talk about. The main group in the FP Room talk about so many things
> along
> with filePro... food, toys, music, movies, politics, etc. I'm going to
> make
> some organizational decisions some time this week about all this, so I
> need
> to know what to do... and I want to hear it here, and nowhere else. A
> public
> referendum so to speak... How many of you use the room and find it
> valuable.
> How many of you like the idea of the room and always meant to try it
> but
> have never done so? (But you think you might in the future.) How many of
> you
> want to see it stay around?
> 
> Like I say, this is a specific thing I'm asking. I would appreciate not
> hearing "it doesn't do this.." or "it bad because..." and anything else
> negative about it. I am solely interested in hearing from anyone and
> everyone who feels the room is useful and should stay around. I'll make
> my
> decision after I read some of the responses and gauge the response. The
> yay's will have it. I could care less about the nays. (You naysayer's,
> just
> keep never coming around, that suits us fine. :-))  For the rest of the
> group who does use the room or does want it to stay working another year
> or
> so... let me hear that, this is your time to speak up.
> 
> Don't go into the room to respond, don't send me private email...
> responses
> here, in public, from people who read this mailing list are all that
> I'm
> interested from this post. I'll poll the others who use the room and
> don't
> use or know about this list via other means.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> --
> John Esak
> (570) 384-2444
> 
> Author of:
> The filePro Survivor Series
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> 
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