[SEL] Curious

[bill at antique-engines.com]

I dunno - might try when the season comes back around. OTOH, my hands are
full now running/hosting/administering http://theamcforum.com
In 6 months we've built nearly 500 members and get hundreds of posts a
week. It's a community with groups and friends,
BUT it requires "watching over" as some come in and tend to ruin or run
things, where with email like this, well, it's just different. (feel free
to check and see how it's organized)
It's nice with a forum you can post a picture ONE TIME and all can see,
even those who join next week. Those who want to get "off-topic" can do so
in the off-topic banter area I've setup for them.
I still like the email list like this as I have a folder where all of the
SEL messages go, then can further file things in categories, or delete if
I wish. I like that part. But with the forum, I have it setup so that if
you post a question, you can get an email telling you of any replies, and
the forum post is actually included IN the email.
It's even got RSS feed! So you can watch forum messages roll right into
Outlook (or your favorite RSS reader) So in a way, our AMC forum is the
best of all worlds. I dunno, I still like this, but haven't really given
Harry's or even the new ATIS site a REAL chance.
I think to some extent, it's information overload............
Geesh, did THAT ever make sense!

Bill

> On 03/01/2008, Arnie Fero <fero_ah at city-net.com> wrote:
>> Hi George,
>>
>> My two cents worth is that those who prefer the web-thread-based style
>> primarily post on Harry's.  Those who prefer the email style post on SEL
>> or Old Engine.  SOME even prefer the British newsgroup style.  8-))
>> And some even post to all of 'em (at least from time to time).
>>
>
> Perhaps to answer both posts:
>
> When there was only dial-up access, the Bulletin Boards probably
> accounted for a large percentage of this sort of traffic (on different
> subjects) and like many of the older folks here, I spent a lot of time
> on them.
>
> Since the web explosion in the past 8-10 years and with the advent of
> 24-hour broadband access, there are possibly too many forums now, and
> the attendances are being diluted.
>
> I am involved with Smokstak and Oldengine, but I'd be happy to see the
> ATIS forum flourish, Spencer has put a lot of time onto the hobby on
> our behalf and deserves to see it run.
>
> The Usenet newsgroups are a peculiarity to Usenet, not just the UK,
> and there are over 100,000 of them now. You also have the various
> groups organised by Yahoo and Google.
>
> I find, like Arnie, that half a dozen is probably as much as you can
> pay any great attention to and keep track of the posts and people, the
> others are just occasionally visited.
>
> Peter
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