Re: What is this list for?

From: Benjamin Cramer (truempyi@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 22:56:46 AEST


At Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:05:09 +0200, Erik Richard Sørensen,
kml.ers@MAIL1.STOFANET.DK, wrote:

>Hei Frazer
>
>I'm not whether the official nor the unofficial manager/leader of this
list. I
>just refered to the mesage I got from the Listserver, hwen I had to change my
>receiving mailaddress. And for you and others to avoid misunderstandings, I
>copied the message below your reply to my posting. And I don't think that
>there is any need for Fred to step into this. Just read for yourself.
>
>Frazer Wright wrote:
>
>> >Just this to clearify. This list is not only for Nisus Writer. - But
>> >also for other products from the Nisus Company - and for Nisus related
>> >items.
>>
>> I'm sorry. I'm not aware that Erik Richard has been appointed list leader,
>> or list manager able to lay down hard and fast rules for this list. Have I
>> missed an election? A coup d'etat perhaps.
>>
>> I joined the Nisus list in 1996 and the acceptance note I received from
>> Fred read as follows:
>>
>> >Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:05:36
>> >
>> >Your  subscription to  the  NISUS list  (A discussion  list  for Nisus  &
>> >NisusWriter) has been accepted.
>>
>> Note, this says nothing about "other products" or even Nisus related items.
>>
>> Perhaps Fred, as founder and moderator would now wish to define exactly
>> what this list is for. Just to clarify my mind (and, I suspect, that of
>> other people) before too many of us give up on the ever weakening  signal
>> to noise ratio and unsubscribe.
>
>This is the message that I got from the listserver, when I re-subscribed:
>"L-Soft list server at Dartmouth College (1.8d)" wrote:
>
>> Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:55:47
>>
>> Your  subscription to  the  NISUS list  (A discussion  list  for Nisus  &
>> NisusWriter) has been accepted.
>>
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Hey Erik and Frazer,

I don't know what Erik's quotation of the entire subscription reply was
meant to point out - I didn't find anything that made the intention of
the list any clearer than the portion Frazer already quoted.  But, I
disagree with Frazer's interpretation of "A discussion list for Nisus &
NisusWriter".  It seems NisusWriter is specifically mentioned as a topic,
but Nisus is mentioned as well.  It seems that if we are to discuss the
company, Nisus, that implies that discussion of any software designed
and/or marketed by Nisus is fair game, as is the company's general market
strategy.

Ben


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