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Thanks to the community owner Christopher Wanko for providing the content.
Hello all-
After twenty years, the list is closing. The file traffic has
certainly slowed to a stop, for a variety of reasons, and now that
Yahoo has been bought by Verizon, the Groups functions are going away.
In some respects, the changes are reverting back to a
mailing-list-only experience, but in 2019 that's almost assuredly a
non-starter for a thriving group.
If you have files or any other media on the Groups site, please try to
pull it off. I am trying to archive the site but Yahoo/Verizon is
making this very difficult. Any advice, please send it my way.
I wish I could write an all-encompassing coda for this place. It was
originally started as a place for non-support customers of Maximo to
exchange ideas and solutions, back when the product was still version
3. I've made some friends over the years, lost a few (still think of
T-Bos every now and then), but the Yahoo Group quickly turned into
something way more than my idea. I was very proud to see it take off
and support so many people, for so long. I'm particularly pleased to
see many of the long-timers advance their careers... Maximo has been a
good way to make a living.
Finally, I really want to thank Wes Williams for his help and
inspiration all these years. Wes is probably the most generous and
resourceful individual I have ever met, and I'm lucky to know him.
I'll still be answering email at maximal@wanko.com, but in the next
few weeks, the Group will be closing for good. This was something we
all built together, and it's been an amazing two decades.
-Christopher Wanko
Hi Chris: wow, this has been a long run, from the time when this was the only newsgroup that you could turn to for Maximo know-how, to today.
I’m sorry to see that an era has passed, but not surprised because the community now has so many more resources available than it did back then. It has also matured, and there are so many more knowledgeable people.
I particularly want to give you my thanks for keeping the group open as long as you did, and doing the work consistently for 20 years. I still hope to run into you personally somewhere down the road at some Maximo convention, and take you for a beer or two to reminisce.
My thanks to Wes as well –
Shannon Rotz
Shannon.rotz@incommsolutions.ca <mailto:Shannon.rotz@incommsolutions.ca>
From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:53 PM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MAXIMO List] Maximo Yahoo Group is closing this month.
Hello all-
After twenty years, the list is closing. The file traffic has
certainly slowed to a stop, for a variety of reasons, and now that
Yahoo has been bought by Verizon, the Groups functions are going away.
In some respects, the changes are reverting back to a
mailing-list-only experience, but in 2019 that's almost assuredly a
non-starter for a thriving group.
If you have files or any other media on the Groups site, please try to
pull it off. I am trying to archive the site but Yahoo/Verizon is
making this very difficult. Any advice, please send it my way.
I wish I could write an all-encompassing coda for this place. It was
originally started as a place for non-support customers of Maximo to
exchange ideas and solutions, back when the product was still version
3. I've made some friends over the years, lost a few (still think of
T-Bos every now and then), but the Yahoo Group quickly turned into
something way more than my idea. I was very proud to see it take off
and support so many people, for so long. I'm particularly pleased to
see many of the long-timers advance their careers... Maximo has been a
good way to make a living.
Finally, I really want to thank Wes Williams for his help and
inspiration all these years. Wes is probably the most generous and
resourceful individual I have ever met, and I'm lucky to know him.
I'll still be answering email at maximal@wanko.com <mailto:maximal@wanko.com> , but in the next
few weeks, the Group will be closing for good. This was something we
all built together, and it's been an amazing two decades.
-Christopher Wanko
Wow, all good things must come to an end!
I joined this group back in the 90 with PSDI Maximo 3.1, probably the best
user group I have ever joined!
Thank you to the Maximo gurus: Chris, Wes, Ian, Jason, John R, Shannon,
lonnie, Pat, Sean, Travis and my friends from PSDI, MRO and IBM
Thank you All!
Martin Wunder
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:53 PM maximo list owner maximal@wanko.com
[MAXIMO] <MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello all-
>
> After twenty years, the list is closing. The file traffic has
> certainly slowed to a stop, for a variety of reasons, and now that
> Yahoo has been bought by Verizon, the Groups functions are going away.
> In some respects, the changes are reverting back to a
> mailing-list-only experience, but in 2019 that's almost assuredly a
> non-starter for a thriving group.
>
> If you have files or any other media on the Groups site, please try to
> pull it off. I am trying to archive the site but Yahoo/Verizon is
> making this very difficult. Any advice, please send it my way.
>
> I wish I could write an all-encompassing coda for this place. It was
> originally started as a place for non-support customers of Maximo to
> exchange ideas and solutions, back when the product was still version
> 3. I've made some friends over the years, lost a few (still think of
> T-Bos every now and then), but the Yahoo Group quickly turned into
> something way more than my idea. I was very proud to see it take off
> and support so many people, for so long. I'm particularly pleased to
> see many of the long-timers advance their careers... Maximo has been a
> good way to make a living.
>
> Finally, I really want to thank Wes Williams for his help and
> inspiration all these years. Wes is probably the most generous and
> resourceful individual I have ever met, and I'm lucky to know him.
>
> I'll still be answering email at maximal@wanko.com, but in the next
> few weeks, the Group will be closing for good. This was something we
> all built together, and it's been an amazing two decades.
>
> -Christopher Wanko
>
>
I to have been a part of this group since the late 90s. It was a great help in my early years and was an invaluable source for information and answers to difficult questions.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed through the years.
Kevin Egolf
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From: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com <MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of maximo list owner maximal@wanko.com [MAXIMO] <MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:52 PM
To: MAXIMO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [External] [MAXIMO List] Maximo Yahoo Group is closing this month.
Hello all-
After twenty years, the list is closing. The file traffic has
certainly slowed to a stop, for a variety of reasons, and now that
Yahoo has been bought by Verizon, the Groups functions are going away.
In some respects, the changes are reverting back to a
mailing-list-only experience, but in 2019 that's almost assuredly a
non-starter for a thriving group.
If you have files or any other media on the Groups site, please try to
pull it off. I am trying to archive the site but Yahoo/Verizon is
making this very difficult. Any advice, please send it my way.
I wish I could write an all-encompassing coda for this place. It was
originally started as a place for non-support customers of Maximo to
exchange ideas and solutions, back when the product was still version
3. I've made some friends over the years, lost a few (still think of
T-Bos every now and then), but the Yahoo Group quickly turned into
something way more than my idea. I was very proud to see it take off
and support so many people, for so long. I'm particularly pleased to
see many of the long-timers advance their careers... Maximo has been a
good way to make a living.
Finally, I really want to thank Wes Williams for his help and
inspiration all these years. Wes is probably the most generous and
resourceful individual I have ever met, and I'm lucky to know him.
I'll still be answering email at maximal@wanko.com, but in the next
few weeks, the Group will be closing for good. This was something we
all built together, and it's been an amazing two decades.
-Christopher Wanko