At the end of a message very early yesterday, Alan Maitland
said:

> ... I have no idea if this may be appropriate for the
> list (heck I don't know if the above was all that
> appropriate),

Yes;  both were and are completely appropriate...  :-)

> Perhaps the good folks at OpenMPE might entertain keeping
> a discussion board for such a purpose. If there actually
> is an interest in having such a place, I think I could
> dredge up an old copy of WebBoard, an old server and an
> appropriate sub domain for this purpose - if anyone is
> interested in my doing this, email me off-list (to the
> [log in to unmask] address) and based upon interest
> I shall go ahead an put something up as my small
> contribution to the OpenMPE community.  ...

Thank you for the kind offer.  There might be instances
where that would be helpful...  but before going to that
extra effort, does the OpenMPE discussion list fall short
for anything we need to discuss now ??...  Maybe it does;
I'm just not sure off the top what we would gain by
splitting the focus at this point (but it's certainly
possible that may change in the future) ??...

Also, a footnote for those of us who work for "large
Government agencies" where the firewall policies are way
beyond our control:  I don't know how prevalent this is,
but at least in our end of the Government world the
"keepers of the firewall" have become pretty ruthless in
closing off access to anything and everything that looks
anything like a chat room.  All "instant messaging" and
etc. services are blocked.  Email is about the only thing
that gets through (provided the virus sniffers don't detect
a dangerous payload (in which case it gets nuked;  and I
get an internal notice saying something was deleted) ).

Ken Sletten