[pianotech] Pianotech archive questions

[Ron Nossaman]

On 10/17/2011 5:30 PM, David Love wrote:
> What does that mean exactly, or from a practical viewpoint?  It is my
> understanding that effectively the old list will no longer function.
> Whether the old email software exists or not, does that matter to us
> mortals?  Maybe now is the time to send out that clarifying email.

I read it as an obfuscatory announcement the old list will be dead, and 
the only functioning ones will be on Higher Logic's site, in spite of 
what they told us a couple of months ago. Meaning that you won't be able 
to use <> characters or ° or ¢ unless you log in (if you can) and 
compose on the site. Nor will you be able to attach or view files 
without also logging on. In other words, telling us that the old list - 
this one, in it's current functionality, would be around for the 
foreseeable future was a lie pending clarification to the contrary.

If the PDA/text option on the new format worked like the old list 
software in the ways I listed above, with access to the archives, we 
would have everything we always had in functionality, as well as 
whatever new and improved features people see in the new format, and 
everyone would be served. I don't understand why that is impossible, and 
why it isn't even being addressed.

Ron N