[C320-list] Forum "architecture"

[John Frost]

The current system works great for me.
I have Outlook automatically move all of these messages to a Catalina folder
that I can peruse during my down time. I easily delete the ones I am not
interested in. I then file the jewels in subdirectories by topic.
I find it simple to reply to a message, though I have not gone to the
trouble of deleting the early parts of the thread because it can be helpful
to some. Unlike Western Union, extra words don't cost.

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-----Original Message-----
From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf
Of Graeme Clark
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 2:20 PM
To: c320-list at lists.catalina320.com
Subject: [C320-list] Forum "architecture"

An earlier post by me generated a question about responding to list messages
without having to cut and paste. 

Until now - as a relative newcomer - (from foreign shores, too) - I have
remained silent, but at the risk of incurring the wrath of the volunteers
who look after this list I am now going to mention this ‘elephant in the
room’!

Why on earth are we using this outdated, email-list type of forum
architecture?

It is clunky, and frequently, undisciplined use means that many responses
are posted with the inclusion of the entire list message or the entire
thread, making it difficult to follow. (Not least because responding is not
a simple matter of just hitting ‘reply' in your email program. You have to
fiddle around and edit the subject title, remove messages from other threads
and so on

You cannot even post messages from the web interface in Google groups
either, it’s ‘read only’

You cannot add rich text features like bold or italic, except like *this*!

and its all so ancient an un-necessary!

take a look here at the C34 owners site

http://www.c34.org/bbs/index.php

This is a standard message board format (available as freeware); you can
subscribe to receive new emails, choose to follow certain threads or not,
and so on.

Guys and Girls - at the risk of upsetting someone,  this froum is the
technical equivalent of hemp rope when everyone else has moved on to
Dyneema, we are the typewriter to everyone else’s iPad, we are the sextant
to everyone elses’s GPS!

I am more than willing to help us move into the 21st Century if its help
thats needed.

Or am I missing a trick - is there some perceived benfit to the email list
that I haven’t understood or some trick to using it that would make it less
a labour of Hercules?

(tin hat on, for incoming!)

Graeme
#366 Jaskar, England