Announcement: New MIVA Community Tool on the Horizon

Unfortunatly,
I doubt it. Heck, my posts, Bill Guindons, and a few others
don't even get archived... And no one
knows why..... 

The only good archive was Viking Coders - and that has also
died...

Not a good thing here, I am afraid.

Bill



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Bill Gilligan
Gilligan On-Line
www.gilliganonline.com
727-373-2536  

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Of 
> Tom Rogers
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:55 AM
> To: 'Keith Hunniford'; merchant-usersmiva.com;

> merchant5-userslistmgr.miva.com; 
> merchant5-coderslistmgr.miva.com; 
> miva-userslistmgr.miva.com; synchro-userslistmgr.miva.com; 
> template5-userslistmgr.miva.com; 
> merchant-coderslistmgr.miva.com; merchant-userslistmgr.miva.com
> Subject: RE: [m5u] Announcement: New MIVA Community
Tool on 
> the Horizon
> 
> Will the thousands of postings from the old list be 
> incorporated into the
> new forum?  
> 
> When I first started using the list, I would just go to
the 
> website.  It was
> really time consuming and the search tool didn't work
very 
> well; I rarely
> found what I was looking for.   Signing up to have
everything 
> come to me as
> an email made a huge difference, I feel totally
connected and 
> have learned a
> lot by quickly browsing each email in my inbox for the
list.  
> 
> If Miva moves all the old postings into the forum, and
it has a better
> search tool, we may be able to find answers without 
> submitting a new thread
> each time. 
> 
> Many software companies use forums as a repository of
good 
> advice, if it's
> well organized it would be really useful, and it would
save 
> the developers
> the trouble of answering the same questions over and
over 
> again.  That said,
> I think part of the reason the so many developers are
willing 
> to participate
> is two fold: They are supporting existing customers and

> steering people to
> their products.  An added benefit to developers and
customers 
> is that ideas
> are floated that are often acted upon by the
developers.
> 
> Let's face it, Miva would be dead in the water if not
for the 
> significant
> support provided by the community of developers and
experienced store
> owners.  I wish Miva would spend more time consulting
with 
> the group before
> they make decisions like this, but the ink is dry on
this 
> deal, let's hope
> the experiment works.
> 
> Tom Rogers
> Tom Rogers Web Design
> Webmaster for the National Empowerment Center
(www.power2u.org)
> 
> 
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