RE: MIU

From: Beach Samurai <beach.samurai_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 17:47:30 +0400

Hello,

I also vote +1 for the fact that it isnt on fb...i like it better this way
on email.

Regards
On Apr 9, 2015 5:33 PM, "Shelly Hermia Bhujun" <shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you SM ^^
>
> > 'Why isn't the Mauritius Internet Users on Facebook? :-) '
>
> Well...my opinion- FB is different. The audience and the approach to the
> content or topics being discussed would be mostly shared or 'liked' and i
> don't think that it's a culture you would like or i don't think that it was
> your objective. FB is a platform where people would just click on 'like'
> for almost anything without really paying attention. The number of likes
> wouldn't necessary mean that the message is being delivered or we're
> creating awareness or stuff. The message would still be read by people who
> really care about what's being said. So, maybe that would leave us with the
> same number of people interacting on the mailing list right now. And......
> this is why we're on the mailing list? :S or.. the mailing list is better
> because you know who's subscribing.. and there's more control... you can
> easily unsubscribe any person who would be rude or say something irrelevant
> or whatever...
>
> So... that's one of the reason why i think MIU is not on FB... :S
> Please share your opinion now.. well... the real reason why we do not
> interact on FB.
>
> Thank you.
> Cheers! \m/
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:18:21 -0700
> > To: shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com;
> mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
> > From: sm+mu_at_elandsys.com
> > Subject: Re: MIU
> >
> > Hi Shelly,
> > At 09:16 08-04-2015, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
> > >I was just wondering.... how did the mailing start?..why was it
> > >created? What are the objectives? How it all started... etc.. :S
> >
> > Logan convinced me to do something in Mauritius. I did a
> > presentation at a Linux User Group Meta meeting after that. I sent
> > the following to the mailing list in January 2014:
> >
> > Mauritius has been connected to the Internet since a long time. Up
> > to now there hasn't a place to discuss about the issues relevant to
> > internet users in Mauritius. It is difficult to tackle the issues
> > relevant to Mauritius when there isn't a local community which can
> > discuss and reach a common position on how to solve the issues.
> >
> > There aren't objectives as such. The current initiatives are:
> >
> > 1. Working on the .mu problem(s)
> >
> > 2. Getting 100 Mbps local internet access at an affordable price
> >
> > Why isn't the Mauritius Internet Users on Facebook? :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > S. Moonesamy
> >
> >
>
Received on Thu Apr 09 2015 - 13:47:43 PST