Ken:

While your concerns have been echoed many times over a couple of different topics, I still fail to see where the system we are working on with Jeff and Hal falls short of what you were just describing.

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=60

You can receive all the posts into your mail client and then with one click respond to the ones you are interested in. The only valid arguments against this so far have been you have to be online, and that the post page is not as robust as some e-mail clients (i.e. spell checker). Those 2 items simply require more complex solutions that we have not been able to fully explore in the 4 days the site has been running.

If there are other issues with the system other than what I have stated above I am more than ready to hear them and see what we can do to solve them. However, we will not be going to another system as we have already proven that the Snitz web forum can be modified easily to address the issues that arise without ignoring the issues that Wiley has with Discussion list software.

Thank you all,


James Sample
Director, IT-Infrastructure
Wiley Publishing, Inc.