It would be great to move to a more central kind of thing, the big barrier is hosting space and responsibility. If you're willing to take moderator and provide a space that includes the ability to post pics, video, etc. I'm all for that. Facebook would be the easiest, but I'm not a huge fan of their ownership policies. Forum would be the best in my opinion, as long as I can continue to get email updates! On Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 4:55 PM Dave Scobie <scoobscobie@gmail.com> wrote:
the last time changing from the email system to a forum was discussed, about three or four years ago, it was resoundly 'voted down' by the group members. folks found forums to be difficult and/or not wanting to learn a new system. the other concern was loosing the email list members in the transition to a new location.
currently there is -
* email list (limited photo abilities and no ability to search old posts) * facebook page (lots of folks don't want facebook because of personal date being public and/or 'mined' by facebook) * trailersailor sub-forum (can post pictures, though photos are deleted after a few years) * MSOG - old info in www-pages and how one can join/remove self from email list. no updates to old info currently planned. * MSOGphoto - old info in www-pages. in process of being updated (yes, slowly) and will be available for user-submitted photos and m-boat project reports.
future -
* do we want to go to facebook? * do we want to go to a forum (i can host forum space and create a moderator system that i, as a builder, does control)? * yahoo group? * stay with what we have (see 'currently' above)?
let us share opinions.
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-- Chris