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George wrote:
> ... In the interim, there will be nothing but confusion. Members will
> join both to ensure they miss nothing; threads will appear on one list or
> another; cross-postings will occur  to ensure that a
> message, or topic, reaches the whole community; threads raised on one list
> will be answered on another; the lists will get archived
> quite separately.

It seems to me that it would be easy to overstate the potential problems of
having two lists. Could be a good idea to have more than one archive.

> I have no "religious" objections to the new list

Where did this "religion" come from? Have you been saved, George?
I thought the topic was nav..

> I have expressed
> my doubts as to whether Frank, for all his energy and
> initiative, is the right character for its stewardship...

And difficult to understate the dangers of Frank's terrible character.

Alex wrote:
> ...if you don't get your message back from the list within few minutes,
> this indicates that it might be lost.

Not so quickly. In practice it can take between a few minutes and a few
hours for messages to arrive; those that get responded to and archived, thus
not lost.

Carl wrote:
> it would make sense for everybody to try to agree upon where they'd like
> the list to reside (google vs. webkahuna) and go there.

Whether it would or not, what is actually going to happen is that the two
lists will co-exist, at least in the short term. The sky won't fall in, and
perhaps the worst of it will be that those easily confused will continue to
suffer from this. In the grand scheme of things it is a very trivial matter;
whether there are one or two or more nav lists.

   

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