Disklavier

Everyone should receive an invitation within a few days.  To shortcut the process, just go to the new site http://groups.google.com/group/disklavier and request to join.  Currently I am approving about 15 new members per hour.

Let's NOT have 1700 people sending "Add me" messages to all 1700 members.  That would be 2.9 million messages BTW.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: starins@... 
  To: Disklavier 
  Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: New Google Group has been set up.


  Add me! 

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  -----Original Message----- 
  From: "Carl Youngblood" <carl@...> 
  Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:44:55 
  To:disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
  Subject: Re: [disklavier] Re: New Google Group has been set up. 

  The transition is greatly simplified by automatically subscribing all existing users.  And you have the option of specifying whether or not a batch of users is added as web only or regular email delivery.  Then the users don't have to do anything.  It just works.  And the URL they need to visit to see the group web site is appended to the bottom of each new message, so there really is no need to make subscribers manually join the new group.  However, I respect Todd's decision to do whatever he feels is best. 

  Carl

  On 3/22/07, nealpolan <carwizard@affordabl: <mailto:carwizard@...> eclassics.com> wrote: 




  --- In disklavier@yahoogro: <mailto:disklavier%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com, "Carl Youngblood" <carl@...> 
  wrote:

  Agreed. But please provide simple step by step instructions for the 
  users to subscribe to and use.

  >
  > I think you also have the option of doing bulk adds for members 
  who don't
  > want to receive emails. I would suggest you sort the list by the 
  various
  > members' email preferences and add everyone to the new group. My 
  biggest
  > concern is that if you fracture the community and we have half of 
  the
  > members subscribed to one group and the other half subscribed to 
  the other,
  > then I won't be sure that my comments and questions are reaching 
  everyone,
  > and I will be obliged to send a message to both groups and also 
  probably
  > provoke a lot of confusion as various members from each group 
  reply. I
  > think it would be better to make a clean break of it and 
  standardize on one
  > platform or the other.
  >