I follow other groups on other subjects on other subjects and see pluses and minuses of each including this group. This is the most active group I follow and sometimes am sorry it is hard to search old posts and have images more wrapped into the process. *Facebook would be okay but it would be sort of nice to be off of that platform. I will note that I participate in the Montgomery Sailboats group on Facebook. *Forums are good in my experience. It would be nice for posts and photos to be kept and searched "forever". *I participate in a Yahoo group for sailplanes and it is pretty good. It is not very active and many posts involve photos. *The amount of activity on this platform is good but is unfortunate photos are somewhat difficult and searching older posts is lacking. (Thanks to whoever makes this this platform work, though!) David GrahBishop CaliforniaMontgomery 15 - Sky Message: 2 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:54:45 -0700 From: Dave Scobie <scoobscobie@gmail.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats     <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: forum or email Message-ID:     <CAGjBOA467-0LWhFPP+SEiqJF6zY_k1bavz+EV4quDt4Aj5bsMg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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. -- :: Dave Scobie :: former M15 owner - www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred :: M17 #375 SWEET PEA - www.m17-375.webs.com