Also while you're in there... use the search box and type in "winch". Thats the beauty! The only thing that is remotely a drawback to me is, who runs it...and how to we integrate the knowledge from here to there. No point having both if we switch. -= Jazz On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey it turns out its not so hard to make a forum. And for now it'd be free. Something like $20 bucks a month eventually...30 days or so. I know more about that now but later if you guys want to hear about it.
Anyway, for those of you who are unfamiliar, go here: http://monty.createaforum.com
login with : administrator pwd: Montgomery (case sensitive) This will give you full administrative rights to look around and see what it does. I made some dummy posts in there. Hopefully it works, Im a forum admin rookie!
-= Jazz
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know enough about this stuff to have an opinion but I would gladly chip in monetarily to help with maintenance. < https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaig...
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:57 PM, John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
I for one don't do FB. TOS not acceptable to me.
Yahoo groups (and some open source forum software too) gives the choice of getting e-mails, reading the threads forum-style on the group pages, or both. So no need to choose one or the other (because most groups will split between "I hate forums, love e-mail" and "I hate e-mail, love forums").
Main advantage is it's free and if everyone behaves, no moderator needed. Someone has to create the group but that's about it.
For anything else, someone has to admin it at least somewhat. I can easily host something snazzy and new on my server, and, need at least a little something annually for hosting resources plus there's install, configure, keep up to date the software, vs. security issues so that it doesn't get hacked and turned into a link farm or spammer site.
cheers, John S.
On 01/27/2016 03:08 PM, Chris Smith wrote:
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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