Re: UKHA_XBOX ?

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Hetherington wrote:

> 1) There will be members that feel it will still split the group
> and they want to receive everything. It is simple to subscribe to
> both for those people and far simpler than subscribing to several
> groups. We have had numerous lists over the years and now have at
> least two lists on completely different servers with a different
> interfaces (tivo and xap).

Mark,

I see an important distinction between the two.

The xAP lists are particularly targetted at the UKHA community. They
are there to discuss/annouce progress, and ask for support on
specific projects or products. I appreciate that the genesis of the
xAP project was enthusiasm from UKHA members, but it's spread beyond
that. As such, I see the xAP lists as more akin to the HomeAutomator,
KAT5, or Homevision lists.

Specifically, I do _not_ perceive that the xAP lists are under the
control of the UKHA moderators. They are under the control of the xAP
management team - Patrick Lidstone, Stuart Poulton, Kevin Hawkins,
John Tankard, Stuart Booth, Mark McCall and myself.. with Stuart
Poulton as web/list master having specific responsibility
for "keeping them on-topic".

I discussed this with Mark McCall last year, and we agreed that this
was appropriate, and that, therefore, the xAP lists do not carry the
UKHA_ prefix.

The UKHA_TiVo list, on the other hand, is primarily a list for
members of the UKHA community to discuss a "specialist" topic
knowing
that the vast majority of list subscribers will be from the UKHA
community, and therefore have similar interests and backgrounds.

In my view there is a lot of "added value" in joining a UKHA_TiVo
list compared to joining another TiVo list.

Regards,

Mark