Feedback About OnlineGroups.Net
From:
John Veitch
Date:
May 12 03:09 UTC
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Dan Randow wrote:
Whether you are using your site or not, we'd like to know what you think
about our service.
Dan, I've been struggling for more than a year now with finding a way
to use Online Groups in a powerful and collaborative way. I thought I
had a solution many months back, but unless I DROVE the involvement
with my own time and effort, nothing happened. Each of us only has
limited TIME.
What do you like about OnlineGroups.Net sites or groups?
The email in my inbox is recognisable, and functional.
There is a web site the pulls together topics, so if I'm behind in a
discussion I can catch up on the back mail easily.
I like the existence of the search function. I have not used it, but on
Ryze where I've been active for 4 years, I often want to refer back to
a previous post, and it's really useful to have a search function that
can find it.
What don't you like about them?
If I'm trying to read a complex topic thread as I sometimes do on Canterbury
Issues, I like the ability to highlight the whole thread and take copy it into
my text editor. But now I have a problem: Some of the mail naturally forms
paragraphs as it was written, and some of it makes each truncated line from the
email a new paragraph.
I think this is caused by people using different email systems and text
editors. To save paper and the make the text readable, deleting the paragraph
mark at the end of every line is a pain.
What do your group members like and not like about OnlineGroups.Net?
Group members find Online Groups confusing. It's a strange environment
when they first enter. Talk about sites and domains confuses people who
have previously only thought about Groups, and have never need to
concern themselves about "where" that group resides.
What improvements would you like to see with your site or groups?
I think there is a market in offering PGP which can be turned on for
certain types of business groups. We know that all email is searched by
intelligence agencies in the USA and elsewhere. We can't be sure that
in addition to intelligence about illegal activities, the same agencies
are not collecting commercial intelligence. "Of course you can trust us
never to pass such information on your competitors." Yeah Right.
If I was any NZ software company, trying to negotiate a contract
overseas, I'd be very reluctant to use unencrypted email as a
communication system.
By the way, if you have started a site, but can't find it, you'll find
it on the list of sites.
http://onlinegroups.net/sites/all_sites
I think that's also a real problem. People are not used to thinking
about "where" their group is. So lots of groups get fomed and "lost" I
expect.
John
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