--- In Electronics_101@..., "dangermouse"
<dangermouse1956@g...> wrote:
Actually, you beat me to the punch of suggesting a web-forum
solution such
as VBulletin, which I thought of (typically) AFTER hitting the
<send>
button. I belong to two of those, although NOT in any sort of
administrative capacity. But both you and ST have good points:
webforums
are everywhere, and NNTP--Usenet--has been around for thousands of
years.
Hundreds, anyway. And it's as simple as a text file. Why reinvent
the
wheel? Because we've all forgotten how to drive a stick? (Forgive
the bad
analogy!)
If I may be so bold as to be, well, bold <ahem>, perhaps we have
all (myself
generously included) grown too accustomed to being patronized by
entities
such as Yahoo. We have an interest in keeping things simple, with
an
"automatic transmission," and they have an interest in keeping us
captive
audience to their ads. How convenient. Riiiight.
Maybe it's time to think differently. Do any of you guys remember
the
original eGroups, just a few years ago, when things really seemed
to run
well? For that matter, (to strain an already overtaxed analogy)
did any of
us ever used to tune up our own cars?
On one hand, I'm starting to scare myself at how radical I'm
sounding. But
on the other hand...
<Channelling Braveheart:--"FREEEEEEDOOOOOMMMMM!!!!">
Oops. I seem to have misplaced my blue facepaint.
If anything I have said is flameworthy, flame away.
-DM
I think I could write a flat threaded forum with the mailing list
type feature, and make it pretty much the same style as yahoo groups,
but a different site design of course, and not all the ads.
Matt
