How do you subscribe to the new list?

["Tomio Iwasa" <tomio.iwasa(at)grapecity.com>]

Title: Avid Community Forums

Hi all,

I certainly do not want to be left behind and would like to join the new list, but don't know how.

Can someone explain the procedures?

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Chasteen, Howard
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:02 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Cc: DS-List(at)googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Avid Community Forums

Thank you Sylvain for showing up;-)

 

What you say about a "single place" makes sense only from the Avid perspective. It is sort of what I expected.

 

Like many others here I tried the Avid-L last year and was very under-impressed with it. It is kludgey to use and slow and requires full internet access which is a problem for some who only have email! Since most of the "talent" except for you guys in Montreal is over here [and now migrating to Google] I made a couple of posts and have not been back since. I did check in Avid-L yesterday to see if anyone much was around. Only a few.

 

I suppose that Avid will insist on frequenting the "official" site only so some of us will have to go over there to get the nice feedback and input you offer,

 

unless you kindly cc the new ds-list(at)googlegroups.com  .

 

That would be easiest to do for you if you just join the Google list and then you can cc us whenever you have pertinent info. We still need and want your participation.

 

I hope things are going well for you! It is obvious that the timing for killing the DS list could not have been worse which causes the general perception to be that Avid is cutting us off! I think we all reacted that way.

 

Blessings, and THREE CHEERS FOR DS!

 

Howard

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sylvain Labrosse
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 7:10 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
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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