The FP Room - yay or nay?

[CDAY]

John,

I vote  Yea, Yay, Yah,

For me, the Room it very good.  Biggest restirction to me is not the 
Room itself but the 4' wire to my head set.

Been gone a week or would have replied sooner.

Charlie Day



John Esak wrote:

>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
>
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