Re: PHYS-L Needs New Owner and New Home!!

["PAUL JOHNSON" <PJohnson@CCCCD.EDU>]

It looks for once like I'm in the majority. I too vote for keeping 
phys-l as e-mail. But Brother MacIsaac has a good idea: we can have 
it both ways. Even though his college uses mailserv rather than 
listserv, he seems to know how to describe the options. I nominate 
him as chairman of the search committee to find a new phys-l owner.

poj

> ....it doesn't have to be an either/or situation.  The expensive
> listserv program (listserv, not mailserv etc) now has web HOOKS --
> this means that it can be read EITHER way, archives can be accessed
> EITHER way and subscribing/unsubscribing/etc can also be done EITHER
> way -- via web pages or via email.  A change to the right SW could
> be transparent, or at least as transparent as mving from uwf to
> somewheres else.
>
> The problem is these fancy features have to be paid for -- listserv
> is no longer free.  Does anyone have personal experience with other
> listserv- like programs that do both and are free or low cost?  At
> NAU we run mailserv, which is ugly and not-nice and does not do the
> web side.
>
> Dan M
> > I'm with Chuck. If Phys-L goes to the Web, I'll never see it again. I have
> > thousands of sites bookmarked and almost never go back to them, even the
> > ones I know I should because I know I'll get valuable new info from them.
> > There are just too many distractions, and getting the Phys-L postings
> > directly to my inbox, is the only way I could keep up with them, or
> > occasionally have somthing to contribute.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> > Hugh Haskell
> > <mailto://hhaskell@mindspring.com>
> >
> > Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
> > have to..
> > ******************************************************
Dr. Paul O. Johnson
Collin County College
pjohnson@ccccd.edu