Re: [OMC-Boats] Too Much Traffic

Peter - Can you review the steps required to remove oneself from the list serve? Thanks, again, for all of your effort!
 
> From: jdood@...
> To: omc-boats@...
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:47:15 -0700
> Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Too Much Traffic
>
> yeah, i'm unclear on this.......if it's now going to be Forum AND
> email, and we can choose which works best for us - fine. But it
> everything is moving to a Forum and we gotta go there daily to check
> in - well, that will spell the end of participation for me. I love
> just seeing all the discussions in front of my by emails daily. I
> would seldom take the time to go to a forum.
>
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Ethan Brodsky wrote:
>
> > I personally think the opposite. I already have too many forums
> > that I "need" to check every day, and my trend is towards getting
> > busy and ignoring them, or at the least only checking them
> > occasionally, to the point where there's so many new posts that I
> > can't even bother to read them all, much less answer them. I'm much
> > more likely to respond to a request for help that's "pushed" into my
> > email and only remember to go to the forum when I need something.
> > With most decent email clients, it's trivial to set up filtering,
> > automatic sorting, and even automatic archiving, that makes an email
> > list like this much less annoying, if you are annoyed about getting
> > such messages.
> >
> > This list could benefit from an online searchable archive, though I
> > found it fairly easy to request download the entire history when I
> > first joined and keep it around for reference. I'm not a fan of
> > people posting attachments and especially pictures - that's
> > somewhere where the forum would be better.
> >
> > A small group I'm part of recently set up a forum for similar
> > reasons, and it was so annoying getting people to read it regularly
> > that we hacked the forum software to allow members to "subscribe"
> > and get email notification for every thread. I still am annoyed at
> > having to log in to actually read the messages.
> >
> > But feel free to set up a forum if you want. I'll probably join if
> > there's a decent archive of documentation, though I doubt I'll read
> > it or post often.
> >
> > Ethan
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, BLDFW wrote:
> >
> >> Now that is the best news I've seen so far! As a member of several
> >> forums, that's the
> >> way to go! Now we'll have an archive of member contributions!
> >> Thanks Peter!
> >> -Bill
> >> Dallas, TX
> >> 1970 Evinrude Explorer - 155 Buick V6 - OMC Sterndrive
> >> http://www.photobucket.com/evinrude_explorer
> >> --- On Wed, 4/7/10, Peter Crowl <finboats@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Peter Crowl <finboats@...>
> >> Subject: [OMC-Boats] To Much Traffic
> >> To: omc-boats@...
> >> Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 11:05 AM
> >>
> >> One of the problems with ListServe is that it forces
> >> everything into your
> >> inbox whether you want to know about it or not.
> >> As soon as there's an upswing in traffic - which is a good thing as
> >> far as a
> >> community is concerned - it becomes an irritation for many.
> >> The solution is a forum. I've been working on that and have put one
> >> up. I've been
> >> holding off on making any kind of announcement while adding content
> >> - and the
> >> front pages aren't ready...but now seems like as good a time as any.
> >>
> >> A forum allows people to pick and choose what they read - to post
> >> photos easily -
> >> to contribute material regarding their projects and to engage in
> >> conversations
> >> about off topic or near topic subjects without pushing others away.
> >>
> >> So here goes....
> >>
> >> Please visit http://omcboats.org/forum/
> >>
> >> Please take a moment to register - post a hello - add whatever
> >> you'd care to. If
> >> you have manuals, brochures or other content to add please either
> >> feel free to do
> >> so or send them to me and I'll take care of it.
> >>
> >> This is for everybody and with participation I think it'll be a
> >> boost to the
> >> avocation.
> >>
> >> This is not meant in any way to take anything away from The List -
> >> it's an
> >> alternative. Try it - see if you like it.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Peter
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