[C320-list] Discussion List upgrade

[Ted Harrison]

John we purchased our boat out of New Buffalo, Michigan. At that time we had to use a ladder to get down to the boat. So you needed some water, not as much as this year has delivered. 

I am located in Whitby Ontario and have floating docks. In 2017 we had about 200 loads of recycled asphalt delivered. So we are very lucky as a lot of club have submerged docks on Lake Ontario as well.

Good luck to everyone on the Great Lakes. 

Ted Harrison

> On Jun 19, 2019, at 5:29 PM, timothy o'connor <timoconnorpe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jeff,
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> Thanks for the detailed and clear explanation.
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> Tim 
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> timothy o'connor, p.e.
> o'connor program management, llc
> 716-912-9874 m
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>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Jeff Hare <Catalina at thehares.com> wrote:
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>> Hello all,
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>> It's time for an upgrade.  Ok, way past time, but we're all volunteers and
>> super busy right?  :-)
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>> **BACKGROUND:
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>> Today the c320-list is an email discussion list running at our hosting
>> company.  It has the benefit of storing all the discussion history in text
>> format that we can download and keep handy if we like.  We don't allow
>> pictures or attachments to be posted because we don't have any way to
>> moderate content out of the archives once they've been posted.  
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>> Today we also send a copy of every post over to our C320-List on
>> GoogleGroups.  That group has no members so it acts like there's just one
>> really busy member posting all this stuff.  That's why nobody can post or
>> respond directly to messages you read there, but you can browse/search that
>> discussion group with your web browser.  
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>> We've been doing this for years.  
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>> **THE UPGRADE:
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>> It's time to reverse that whole thing and allow you to participate only
>> through the C320-List Google Groups (via email and/or web browser as you
>> choose). 
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>> The association itself will continue to use our current email list only to
>> archive all incoming content so that we don't lose any of it but it will
>> stop being used for delivering discussion list emails.  GoogleGroups will
>> assume that role.  (BTW, It would be great if we could get volunteers to dig
>> through those and turn that into technical articles/FAQs on our website.)
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>> **WHAT WILL THIS MEAN TO YOU?
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>> We will need to remove everyone from the current C320-List and ADD you as
>> members to our Google C320-List.  We should be able to do this for you in
>> bulk,  but I think we'll need to get your consent first because we do not
>> want to be flagged as building a list with members who do not want to be
>> included.  If you'd rather use another email address, like your gmail,
>> comcast or AOL email address instead of what you're using today you'll be
>> able to do that.  
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>> In order to do this, we may create an Opt-In form on our C320.org website
>> and request that you fill it in to give us permission to move you.  If you
>> want to join the google C320-List on your own later that will always be
>> possible of course.
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>> We will provide advanced notice when we'll do this.  Once we start this
>> process the old list will be shut down and the GoogleGroup list will start
>> up and allow participation both Online via web browser and also via email.
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>> Posting Pictures and Videos will be permitted.  Yea!
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>> **WHEN WILL WE START THIS?
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>> I will be finishing the migration plan later this week and will send another
>> short email as soon as I can with exactly what we need you to do and when.  
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>> We will also post this information on the front page of the C320 website so
>> you'll be able to go there and understand what you need to do if you want to
>> participate.  I hope to have this completed over the next couple weeks,
>> barring personal schedule conflicts.
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>> There will probably be some hiccups in this process, so try to be
>> understanding.
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>> Feel free to provide feedback if you have concerns, comments, or volunteer
>> if you want to help get this done faster.   :-) 
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>> Cheers!
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>> Jeff Hare 
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