Re: Message Board

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Matthew, your list below is on the money. We shouldn't have to justify the 
value of a web-based forum. That's been done already. The question is 
whether the group, and more importantly the moderator/creator sees this 
same 
value.

Why don't we setup a poll of some sort? Let the masses decide.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Matthew.Quinn@sunlife.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Message Board


> Man, that message might be the best arguement for a board- if I were to
> respond to each point individually, it just becomes a hideous mess of
> "quotes" and "responses".
>
> It's nice on a message board when each quote is in a shaded little box 
> with
> different colored text, thus making it easy to skim down a thread &
> determine who said what. But a couple quick rebuttals:
>
> 1) Every thread on every message board has a web address. When I want to
> archive a specific thread, I simply save the web address in a Notepad.
>
> 2) Your response about where to keep files is a web page? LOL- isn't that
> what you are arguing against? How is that a virtue of a mailing list?
>
> 3) I don't conside this off-topic. I'm saying, maybe there's a bunch of 
> Red
> Sox fans on the list. Or Yankees, or Coffee, or whatever- LD stays pretty
> on point almost all of the time, which is awesome, because I don't need a
> bunch of emails from Yankee fans mucking up my inbox- but on a board, you
> can disucc these things with your fellow loopers, and uninterested 
>parties
> can skip over them.
>
> Again, theres no right or wrong here, just preference.......
>
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>             "Joey"                            To: 
> Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>             <tentaclejoe@gmail.com>           cc:
>             04/25/2006 02:52 PM               Subject:  Re: Message Board
>             Please respond to
>             Loopers-Delight
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> On 4/25/06, Matthew.Quinn@sunlife.com <Matthew.Quinn@sunlife.com> wrote:
>
>> I think some of you frequent the wrong message boards. I've never found
> the
>> many active boards that i frequent to be 'clumsy, feature poor, or
>> inefficient'.
>
> One thing I hate about message boards is if you find a very
> interesting message its a bit of a pain to archive it. Unless you have
> a save feature on the board you have to cut and paste it into a text
> editor and save it. Mail lists give you the advantage of archiving
> interesting posts at the touch of a button or drag into an archive
> folder.
>
>
>> I mean- let's post some pictures of our setups! Oh wait,
>> can't do that. Let's post some clips of our work to one central web
>> location wher everyone can look at everything in one spot! Oh wait, 
>can't
>> do that.
>
> Sure you can - http://www.loopersdelight.com/files/
>
> or just get yourself a website - where have you been? :)
>
> How about an off topic forum where people who have one thing in
>> common (looping) can discuss other aspects of the universe we live in- 
>oh
>> wait, can't do that.....
>
> I think that's what we are doing right now :)
>
> The only thing wrong in my opinion with the email list format is
> people who don't know how to edit their replies and include 20 threads
> or THE ENTIRE DIGEST in their post!!! :)
>
> Joey
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