The FP Room - yay or nay?

[Cole, Ken (ABRC)]

Yes from me to John, It's good to chat with the guys and gals from time
to time and catch up on all the FP gossip.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> Of John Esak
> Sent: Saturday, 12 November 2005 5:13 PM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: The FP Room - yay or nay?
>
>
> 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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