Disklavier

Sounds like a plan.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Youngblood 
  To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [disklavier] New Google Group has been set up.


  Thanks Todd.  I will continue to approve applications as I see them, and I will try to take some time to mirror the uploads.  By the way, I was thinking it might be kind of cool to leave new uploads separate, but after they have been available for a few months, add them to one large ZIP file that keeps getting bigger.  That way the ZIP compression will be even more efficient, and it will make it a lot easier for new visitors to download everything with one click.  I'll see what I can do about that. 



  On 3/22/07, Todd Muncy <inbox2@...> wrote:

    Ok, I have dubbed thee a manager of the Google group Carl.  Feel free to approve any pending applications you run across.  Three came in before I finished this paragraph.  If you or anyone else can find the time, it would be great begin duplicating the file vault contents on the google site.

    The potential risk of directly enrolling such a large group is that it will probably result in a few hundred long dormant members receiving email notifications from Google that they have been involuntarily signed up.  If that causes Google to receive a dozen quick complaints, that can result in them deleting the group for abuse and greatly complicating things.  

    When the dust settles, we can review who hasn't responded and enroll them in small groups that won't cause a big blip.  I'd also rather have someone accept the invite and choose to receive mail, rather than enroll them directly with a no email option they might not know to revise later.


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Carl Youngblood 
      To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
      Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:45 AM
      Subject: Re: [disklavier] New Google Group has been set up.


      Yes Todd, I'd be happy to help with that.  Thanks.



      On 3/22/07, Todd Muncy <inbox2@...> wrote: 

        Let's see what happens when the bulk of the invitations hit in a few days.  I put out about 140 invites in small bunches that did not require moderating and about a third of them have accepted in the first 12 hours.  

        The easiest way to make the break will be to use the old email platform to keep telling people it's been declared obsolete and to move to the new one, once it has taken root.

        Carl, do you want to be set up as a second manager of the group so you can manage the file vault, issue invites, approve membership requests, etc.?  Anyone else interested as well?

          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Carl Youngblood 
          To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
          Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:12 AM
          Subject: Re: [disklavier] New Google Group has been set up.


          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.