[Ipg-smz] We need an alternative to our existing lists

[Christine Hall]

Also, don't forget that Facebook follows you around.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 12/17/19 10:14 AM, Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, Perlow, Jason via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> We aren't talking about a group with thousands of members though. We 
>> have a few
>> hundred members on IPG, and the percentage of active ones is VERY low.
> 
> Yes, but, among other things, as others have already pointed out, when 
> you crank open a Facebook tab or app, you're now in a street fair full 
> of people yelling out their windows about other stuff, hard to tune out. 
> Email, it's pretty quiet, and you get to chose what to look at/read, and 
> can delete stuff.
> 
> Also, for many posts, one wants to be able to easily respond to just one 
> or two people, as part of a conversation that wants to get filed within 
> email (clients, projects, topics, etc). Or fwded some of (sans name and 
> sensitive stuff) to non-listers, etc. I haven't used Facebook enough to 
> know whether this is easy to do there.
> 
> And while there may be ads in my email messages, there's no ads in the 
> client, nor stuff that might go all blinkenlight on me or otherwise 
> clamor for my distraction.
> 
>