Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:11:51 -0500
Reply-To: robert feller <syncro.carboncow@GMAIL.COM>
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From: robert feller <syncro.carboncow@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Wallaced?
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If you want living memory with most forums you simply tell the setup that
you want and email for ALL posts! Better yet I currently belong to a few for
my Porsche and boats that have RSS. So when I check my reader each day I get
all the same content w/o having to have a separate email address or clog up
my main on. Plus you'd never get "wallaced"...
I know there are many many old timers on here that hate change (I see their
distane regularly!) but at some point it sure would be nice to get such a
valuable list more manageable and modernized. This would allow better
searching and client management, plus those of us who are not really
thrilled with Friday political rants can opt out of off time forums.
Yes there are other sites to join but vanagon.com is the place all know to
go and love. The Yahoo! syncro is very respectable and I'll guess most here
below but even Yahoo! groups is limited.
Will I continue to use it in this format? Yes. Do I have the time and
resources to help upgrade the site? No.
But it would be nice to get this list in the 21st century...
Shawn
On Jan 29, 2008 3:08 PM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> Right now, on another newsgroup to which I subscribe, there is a great
> debate going on about whether to change to a forum format or not.
> Apparently, for Moderators, it makes life easier, especial if the list
> is huge, as in the case of this other group - not large by some
> standards, but big enough - some 5000 active members.For the moment,
> it's about 50-50 about changing format or not. That one half feels like
> I do. - the classic newsgroup listing allows for "living memory" to be
> more active, and allows for closer personal connection. Other formats
> appear not to do this.
>
> Again, I like our "Living Memory", which typically is made of of some
> Guru's, some regulars, some not so regulars, and a few Curmudgeons. All
> of to whom you can make a post, and get an almost immediate response. I
> wouldn't want it any other way.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
>
> John Rodgers wrote:
> > I kinda like "living memory". Keeps a better people to people connetion
> > - and I think that is as much the lifeblood of this list as the interest
> > in our beloved Vans. If that disappears, so goes the list. IMHO.
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
> >
> > Sudhir Desai wrote:
> >> the wiki is already here~
> >> just hasn't been updated in a few months :D
> >>
> >> On Jan 29, 2008 9:12 AM, robert feller <syncro.carboncow@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> another good reason to figure out how to get this board into the
> >>> modern era
> >>> with forums and rss!
> >>>
> >>> here it comes...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 29, 2008 6:26 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Yup, ain't "living memory" wonderful?
> >>>>
> >>>> Makes it possible to call up such wonderful detritus as "being
> >>>> Wallaced!" in a heartbeat.
> >>>>
> >>>> John Rodgers
> >>>> 88 GL Driver
> >>>>
> >>>> Michael Elliott wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 1/28/2008 4:44 PM Richard Golen wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> and for a
> >>>>>> week or more the traffic on this list effectively doubled...for
> >>>>>> every
> >>>>>> message sent to the list, all of us received a "on vacation/out of
> >>>>>> office" message from Mr. Wallace.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Aye, t'was a dark and troubled time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> >>>>> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> >>>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> >>>>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> >>>>> KG6RCR
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Shawn Feller
> >>> Ohio
> >>> www.carboncow.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
--
Shawn Feller
Ohio
www.carboncow.com
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