Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:38:18 -0700
Reply-To: "Johnson, Darrell" <JohnsonD@SYBRONDENTAL.COM>
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From: "Johnson, Darrell" <JohnsonD@SYBRONDENTAL.COM>
Subject: Web Boards and Good Engineering
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While it is very true that cheaper web bulletin board software can make for
slow connections and many frustrations, better software, such as WebBoard
4.0, "pages" the messages for speed, along with many other enhancements.
These better quality boards also can e-mail notify you of the day's
subjects, and then you can go on-line to view the messages. WebBoard can
also be set up as a true listserv for these best of both worlds. The web
based message format gives you the option of uploading jpeg and gif files as
attachments (like the fine pictures of Buses By the Trail). The huge
advantage of these quality http based boards is a fast and efficient search
engine. I for one would like a better, faster method of querying the
valuable information everyone has contributed to this great list.
If only the V'gon/EV world had access to http board software up to the
quality of the subject's vehicles. ;)
Darrell Johnson
Manager, Internet Applications
Sybron Dental Specialties
http://www.sybrondental.com
oh yes, most importantly
'90 Vanagon Carat
-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@IBM.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 7:30 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Further Eurovan Fire Update (3)
At 12:22 10/19/99 , Richard Golen wrote:
>The Eurovan list has gone from mail-list format to a web page format. You
>can access it at:
Heaven forbid that this list should ever do the same! I find web boards
completely unusable for a number of reasons, most especially the enormous
amount of time it takes to use them, and ALL OF IT ONLINE! To me web
boards are a quintessential example of attempting to make it easy for the
complete naif, at the expense (literally, in this case) of everybody
else. I tried, honest I really tried to use the Westfalia web board, and
it's simply not worth the trouble having to load a page for every single
stinking message. This list has had 8200 msgs since 1 July -- I shudder to
think what my Internet bills would be if I even attempted to deal with
that, not to mention having no time to eat or sleep. Does this mean that
the EV people have little to say to each other?
{/Rant off}
Seriously (still) <g> -- can anyone explain why (apparently a lot of)
people find web boards attractive? I've found one tiny advantage -- for
me, not the users -- in other people's web boards, which is that they are
searchable by web search engines; so if I'm trying to find some bit of
info/advice in the universe I sometimes get directed to a message on a web
board, and it's often interesting. Of course having them searchable also
means that correspondents' addresses are available to spam
address-harvesting programs...
David Beierl - Providence, RI
http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon.htm
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"
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