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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Web forum



Yes, Web forums look nice...until something happens and all archives are lost. I used to post to a huge and apparently permanent on-line forum that recently vanished, along with some of my best work.

What's on my own hard drive gets backed up to CDs. I can't do anything about what's in the Cloud.

Marc

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On 8/14/2010 3:25 AM, David Hoffman wrote:
I much prefer a web forum to the email list.  Threaded formats are easy
to follow and are archived online rather than in my mail box. There is
also much less of a time dependence of replies, as topics don't get
buried in inboxes. Please realize that these comments are coming from
someone who is not willing to take on the responsibilty of maintaining a
forum of moderate traffic.

David Hoffman
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*From:* Alan James <alanjames@xtra.co.nz>
*To:* personal_submersibles@psubs.org
*Sent:* Wed, August 11, 2010 5:01:35 PM
*Subject:* [PSUBS-MAILIST] Web forum

Hi psubbers,
Does anyone look at the web forum?
I haven't looked at it in months but It was the first place I went to
when I discovered the psub site. I posted a question & didn't get an answer
for some time & then someone kindly advised me that I was wasting my time
there & should go on the email forum.
As the web forum seems to be the first port of call for anyone making
contact, perhaps
we could set up a roster within members or interested parties to monitor the
web forum every day or two.
If we each did this for a week at a time & there were 25 on the roster, that
would be only twice a year that you were on. Any questions that were out
of our
scope could be submitted to the group on the email blog.
What do you think?
Regards Alan




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