Re: Re: Bones website suggestions
The present system works just fine. I would leave it alone. 'Nuff said!
Dan
'64 Das Boot
Mike Israel wrote:
>
> This sems to come up as a topic about once a year.
>
> Yes, we have had numerous offers for other hosting
> options including team.net, aaca, etc.. Each of these
> has their own unique set of strengths and weaknesses.
> Some indeed have no ads but do not offer the
> flexibility of receiving messages in the format of
> your choice (i.e. individual email, daily digest, read
> on the web site). The pros/cons debate goes on.
>
> When this does come up each year I encourage list
> members to check out the other sites mentioned. I
> then indicate that if there is a strong preference to
> move off of Yahoo then I will move to another format
> as we did years ago from listbox. For the past 2-3
> years there have usually been 1-2 folks strongly
> voicing an opinion to move while the majority feels
> that the Yahoo Group works well, is well known, ads
> are generally unobtrusive, enables control of
> spammers, etc.
>
> So, again if there is a significant percentage of the
> user community who wants to move the forum from Yahoo
> I will do so. At the same time, I will not disrupt
> the service of almost 400 subscribers unless there is
> a truly compelling reason to do so. Also note that
> pictures in messages has been turned back on, this was
> intentionally turned off a couple of years ago when a
> few folks with slow connections or no anti-virus
> software began griping about the attachments. Fact is
> that there is no one solution that will please
> everyone.
>
> Mike I.
>
>
> --- a_colo_native <colo_frontrange@netzero.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Tommy,
> >
> > About a year or more ago the AACA generously
> > offered us a FREE
> > spot on thier forum site.
> >
http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?Cat=
> > (It would be in an Amphicar specific area) It
> > allows photos, links
> > in the messages, NO ADS!, offers a seperate HUGE
> > photo section,
> > security and the best of all is that it has about
> > 21,026 members as
> > of today. This will go a long way towards educating
> > folks about the
> > Amphi. The offer was declined in favor of Yahoo. I
> > opted to not set
> > it up out of respect for Mike Isreal.
> >
> > No offense to anyone, but the Yahoo site has too
> > many drawbacks
> > and is really outdated and limited. I really think
> > that everyone
> > would be happier with a modern forum site.
> > Especially a top of the
> > line antique auto specific locale. I would be happy
> > to contact my
> > friends there and see if the offer still stands if
> > we can all agree
> > on it.
> >
> > John Bevins
> > <{{{=<
> >
> >
> > > Hi everyone, Bones, I know you are familiar with
> > the Fiberglassics
> > web site
> > > _
http://www.fiberglassics.com/forms/forum1/_
> > > (
http://www.fiberglassics.com/forms/forum1/) It
> > works great
> > with the pictures in the text. It is cool the
> > > way you can discuss different subjects at once.
> > And they stay
> > together in a
> > > thread. If the whole group would move to the top
> > of the list when
> > someone posted
> > > to it that would be as good as it gets. Tommy in
> > Tampa
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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