<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 13, 2024, at 9:11 AM, Jed Frechette via pdal <pdal@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><div><span style="font-family: -apple-system, helveticaneue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline !important;">>> On Dec 13, 2024, at 5:05?AM, Paul Harwood <</span><a href="mailto:runette@gmail.com" style="font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:-apple-system,helveticaneue;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(66,133,244);color:rgb(66,133,244)">runette@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family: -apple-system, helveticaneue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline !important;">> wrote:</span><br style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, helveticaneue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline !important;">>></span><br style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, helveticaneue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline !important;">>> Goodie - yet another chat application with impossibly complicated access</span><br style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, helveticaneue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline !important;">>> rituals! Life was getting a bit boring anyway :)</span></div><br></div><div dir="auto">What’s wrong with just having discussions on this mailing list? It’s not like this list is extremely high volume and it is hard to keep track of.<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Nothing and the mailing list is the primary communication medium, but I know that not everyone is comfortable posting on mailing lists, and I was looking to provide an alternative venue for asynchronous chat.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems that PDAL has to apply for a sponsorship to allow anonymous anyone to join the instance. I have done so and will report back if it is approved. This is why people are not able to get into it.</div><div><br></div><div>Howard</div></body></html>