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Michael Champion wrote: > I suspect that Don is simply comparing the fine service that SML-DEV has > gotten from eGroups.com with the abysmal service that XML-DEV has gotten > from OASIS. This should be a technical matter of finding the right hosting > service for the XML-DEV community, not some deep philosophical matter of > unity and fragmentation. Except for 1 weekend ago when 1) The whole Egroups site was down for "plumbing" for 2+ days. (They gave their "we will be back at 6 Oclock Sunday" message, but they didnt say which time zone. I suppose they meant some kind of US time. 2) In the following days after that, several pages were wrong: for example the number of messages in the current month. 3) In the following day, I sent one long post (to SML-DEV with some constructive comments on the Common XML draft before its debut) and got a system error message back (I am registered with them, it wasn't a login error on my part). So Egroups is not perfect either. But it really matters for a group to be have high reliability if it is used for community technical support. But since so few postings on XML-DEV seem to be time-critical in this regard (are XML problems found early?) I agree with my former workmate Marcus Carr about being patient. (Actually, I envy people who have such straight-forward lives that XML-DEV being slow represents an issue of much importance. But having posts disappear is frustrating. The same thing happened to me on the W3C website this week to me too. ) Rick Jelliffe *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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