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<p>A rather large effort was put in to advertising and moving any
discussion of importance there, it definitely wasn't the case that
a community had organically grown up around slack (as can be
argued for use of non open communication media in South America
and elsewhere). In any case what was done once, can be done again.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 10.10.2021 um 21:06 schrieb Yuri
Astrakhan:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Simon, I think that sounds a bit conspiracy-like
when you say "forceably moved to Slack". When a new
communication system was created and offered to the community,
the vast majority of people chose to use it for communication
for one simple reason - convenience. No one "forced" me to use
it - I dislike email discussions due to low participation
(same few people tend to be the only ones emailing), and how
unproductive it tends to be.</div>
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PS: I don't think I mention mailing lists.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">P.S. Slack clearly goes beyond USA --
#local-canada (50 users), #local-africa (55), #australia
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 2:52
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moz-do-not-send="true">simon@poole.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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when the US community was more or less forceably moved to
Slack, there wasn't a preponderance of usage at all. It was
more a question of control.<br>
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