[Manifold-l] Manifold Release 8 or The List Lives?

[Colin Driscoll]

Well my experience with a lot of other programs is that they rarely miss a
chance to promote an upgrade and that is just good business AFAIK. 

As for list vs forum, I find the forum much more informative with threads
being continuous and not mixed with a heap of the likes of email
header/footer rubbish. Reliability has also always been an issue with any
listservs that I subscribe too. Frequently emails don't arrive and I only
pick up on something part way through.




-----Original Message-----
From: manifold-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net
[mailto:manifold-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net] On Behalf Of
jburn_gis at cogeco.ca
Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2007 2:30 PM
To: Springfield Harrison; lmaynus at earthlink.net;
manifold-l at directionsmedia.net
Subject: re: [Manifold-l] Manifold Release 8 or The List Lives?

Personally, I feel that it is the user's responsibility for any application
to be checking the actual website for information on some sort of a
semi-regular basis.  Might not be fair, but that is how I learn of most
upgrade for pretty much all of my software.

I think that the fact that Dimitri and Adam (read Manifold employees) post
to these forums is a bonus, but should not be construed as expected in
either group...

As for the RSS, you can click the icon on the main forum page and subscribe,
or you can subscribe to a particular thread.  Icon's are on the main page
and at the bottom of each thread.  Not sure how actual RSS readers work, but
in IE, I just click my little RSS button, and then "subscribe" an voila;-)

Cheers.

>
>
>
> Hello All:
>
>          I think Manifold would be obliged to advise licence-holders 
> of time limited offers.  I understand their goal is to deploy volume 
> at a low unit price and quickly convert high numbers of users to the 
> newest version.  They have all our contact info, I believe.
>
>          Interesting to see the pro-List sentiments - at least on the
list!
>
>          I notice very little discourse about the RSS feed or other 
> Forum access methods.  Any comments on the RSS process?
>
>                  Cheers . . . .
>
> At 07/09/2007 06:26 PM Friday, Lee Maynus wrote:
> >Let's not complicate things here folk. Manifold appears to be listening.
> >
> >Hopefully, Manifold is noticing that the formerly very active 
> >listserve still does have a following. I am entirely OK 
> >distinguishing between being expected with keeping up with patches 
> >(e.g. free upgrades) on my own and expecting Manifold to notify me 
> >when a low cost upgrade opportunity surfaces.
> >
> >(And No, I am not a fan of the new forum either, but it would be very 
> >reasonable to expect Manifold automatically informing their license 
> >holders of low cost version upgrade opportunities).
> >
> >My two cents!
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Colin Driscoll <cd_enviro at bigpond.com>
> > > To: <manifold-l at directionsmedia.net>
> > > Date: 9/7/2007 9:12:49 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [Manifold-l] Manifold Release 8
> > >
> > > But would automatic notification be given for a major upgrade that 
> > > needed
> >to
> > > be paid for, as opposed to a free update?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: manifold-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net
> > > [mailto:manifold-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net] On Behalf Of 
> > > jburn_gis at cogeco.ca
> > > Sent: Saturday, 8 September 2007 10:59 AM
> > > To: Jerry Mulliken; 'Neal Laugman'; manifold-l at directionsmedia.net
> > > Subject: RE: [Manifold-l] Manifold Release 8
> > >
> > > Generally speaking, the default notification freaquency for the
> >auto-update
> > > is a week.  So you should have been notified a week after the 
> > > release, provided that you had an internet connection...
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Does not the automatic "Check for Updates" function notify us of 
> > > > major releases?  I realize some may turn this off if they are 
> > > > not always connected to the internet.  Is this intended to only 
> > > > notify us of minor releases?  It does that for me, but did not 
> > > > notify me of 8, which I learned about on the forums.
> > > >
> > > > Jerry
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: manifold-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net
> > > > [mailto:manifold-l-bounces at directionsmedia.net] On Behalf Of 
> > > > Neal Laugman
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:02 AM
> > > > To: manifold-l at directionsmedia.net
> > > > Subject: RE: [Manifold-l] Manifold Release 8
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > > I would suggest that you use an RSS reader or the built in 
> > > > > ones in IE/FF and just "subscribe" to the site. I think you'll 
> > > > > find this a much more efficient way of tracking threads and news.
> > > >
> > > > Haven't been paying much attention lately. They should have an 
> > > > icon or link somewhere on the page with the feed link. It works well
in Opera.
> > > >
> > > > I would not have known about the upgrade if it were not for this
list.
> > > > Very exciting about the number of DB spatial extenders supported.
> > > > That's has to be a lot of work besides the usual bug-fixxing and 
> > > > feature additions.
> > > >
> > > > I put my upgrade in as soon as I found out. Thanks for 
> > > > mentioning it here!
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >  Neal
>
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