I belong to several online communities, all but the 6-pack list are web based
forums and they work fine with much richer capabilities than what we have here
for presenting and sharing information at least. I think the difference for me
is that I have no personal commitment or sense of ownership in the 6pack forum
simply because I have made no personal investment in it and formed no bond
with that community.
If someone posts a problem to the 6pack list, I'm probably going to research
it a bit even if I don't know the sender and don't know the answer off the top
of my head and it will bother me if a problem is posed here and we don't see
someone suggesting a solution within a short time, often seconds, usually
hours. I have an established virtual relationship with the people that hang
out here that I don't currently have with the Forum folks.
One other advantage of the email based distribution for me is that I use
Outlook in cached mode so all of my mail is here on my laptop whether I am
connected or not and I have 6pack mail going back years. Outlook has pretty
good search capability now so even if I am on a plane planning my next winter
TR projects I can reach back into the 6pack correspondence and find some
useful data. Cant (yet) do that with a web based forum.
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: 6pack-bounces+stan.foster=hp.com@autox.team.net
[mailto:6pack-bounces+stan.foster=hp.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe
Laurito
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:46 PM
To: '6pack List'
Subject: Re: [6pack] OT: 6-pack Forums / Cross posting
As Stan says, you don't have to go looking for the message, it comes to you.
I also own a Z car so I was on the Z mail list too. They are a slightly
younger group, on average, than we are and they decided to completely dump
the mail list and go strictly with a forum. I signed up for their forum and
browsed a few times but haven't been back in over a year. When I have a
problem, I go on the forum, ask my question, get my answer and leave. In my
opinion that's just not fellowship, but the forum process is work while the
list process is recreation to me.
I signed up for the 6 pack forum but that ended the same way. If this list
ever goes, I'll probably just fall out of the information loop. I guess it's
something about old dogs and new tricks.
Joe, the old dog
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