Good Day all

> As for loosing email as a form of communication ... don't go there! Yes Yahoo
> and others do everything they can to push us to 'social media' type services
> because that is where they can make money. Heck Yahoo only bought egroups
> because they liked the idea of a captive advertising audience, but the backlash
> at that time forced them to back down and their current changes have nothing to
> do with usability and everything to do with bottom line. So YES we do now have a
> reason to move off yahoo, but any replacement must provide an email interface
> that works, and many on-line forums don't do that ... because it impacts on
> advertising? I've stopped contributing to projects that I can now only access
> via on-line means. I don't have time to go ploughing around trying to see if
> there is something of interest ... I deal with the stuff that is nicely
> displayed on my desktop! How much productivity is lost with people keeping up
> with Facebook and Twitter?

I second that !

i like to get all messages into my email programm,
i can download and read at my leasure anytime also Offline

i can reply and edit all messages in this one program
not having to waste my time worrying how to interact with
different webinterfaces and editors

i dont have to waste my time logging in and check if there are new messages

Those who complain about Yahoo , try the email interface

about Money ,
currently the Firebird Server is not really heavily used,
which will become different operating a Forum , so a new stronger more expensive
server will be needed , eating up money no longer available for development

SO to all those *IN FAVOUR* of a Forum *DONATE* to the Foundation and just
mention that it is for the operation of a Forum in the Message part,

then we will see how many are serious about that




Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Hannes Streicher mailto:HStreicher@...