----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:09
AM
Subject: Avid Community Forums
Hello,
I waited for the dust to come down
a bit before posting.
The intention was to regroup all
the wonderful knowledge into a single place so all great minds could help
newcomers with their excellent advices. The forum did not have much
activity for Avid DS and there are numerous other forums where the DS
community could pick great information and even exchange workflows and
tips.
The forum is also a place where
users can provide their suggestions and feedback about the product. It
is totally acceptable to even post complaints about what is missing or not
working.
I research the e-mail question with
the forum web developers and they provided me this answer:
You can subscribe to one or all forums and
receive the posts in your mailbox:
Log
in to the Community Forums.
Click the
forum you want.
Scroll down and click
the "Options" button.
In the bottom
pulldown ("Send e-mail"), select the option you want;
never
when new topics are posted in this forum (new
threads)
when new posts are posted in this forum (new posts)
Click "Remember!"
To reply to a post,
though, the member would have to click on the link they receive in their
e-mail to return to the forums - you can't reply via e-mail.
It is not like a mailing-list but
this an option for users who wish to lurk and read the discussions, maybe even
participate.
I feel that going away to a
separate mailing-list is like isolating yourself from the Avid community
instead of joining in with the entire group, exchanging ideas and workflows
between products, and helping building the next generation of products by
providing suggestions or pointing out the current flaws.
I understand the overall
reaction. Being at Softimage since 1992 and living through two major
acquisitions (Microsoft in 1994 and Avid in 1998), I know how upsetting things
can be, or appear to be, at first. Can I ask people to re-evaluate it
all, when the emotion is taken out of the equation? Maybe not today, not
next week, just when you feel ready?
Having a separate mailing-list is
fine if that is everybody's decision.
The Avid Community Forums welcome
anyone who wants to join.
Sylvain
Labrosse
Avid DS Support
Escalation team
http://www.softimage.com/avidds
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