[sdiy] message board

[Randaleem]

Scott,

I'm also new here; having avoided it until now due to
the email-required nature. 

I agree. Single thread forums are much better. Yahoo
groups are single thread forums. I subscribe to over a
hundred of those; many synth related. They work well. 

Two key differences: They don't fill up my mailbox as
I go online to read them. And replying to a post is
easier. I just had to cut your address from the to box
after pressing reply, then cut and paste the SDIY
reply to addy into the to To: box. Then I can send
this reply.

I also have to put my email inbox in reverse order so
that that the new messages are at the bottom, so I can
easily go through the days posts. None of this is
necessary with yahoo gorups, and they allow pictures
and files to be put into a group area to aid
discussion. (The SDIY ascii art is legendary! ;) ) 

In short, a yahoo group has all the advantages of
this; but without the requirement to use email.

Of course, email CAN be used and old timers here
wouldn't even notice if a change were made. The posts
would still come as either individual emails or a
Daily single post of all messages for that day. They
could still reply within their email as they've always
done.

Here's one example: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MOTM

I'm going to try to get used to this format; but it
sure would be helpful to have the ability to read the
posts and reply without using my email. Or having it
clog up with hundreds of messages If I don't read and
review every day.

But having said all this;  I would really dislike a
change to a format with topics. That mess ends up
having a person miss lots of interesting and useful
topics, due to poorly labeled posts and threads which
changeover time to include things not covered in the
topic.   

FWIW, I have not seen increased spam using yahoo
groups.

Randal


--- Scott <Scott at scottwick.com> wrote:

> There are a couple of synth DIY forums, but for some
> reason, I like this
> more.  I think it is open nature of it, not putting
> each thing in it's
> own little topic.  It forces me to learn about
> things I might not
> otherwise.
> 
> And it reminds me of the late80's/early 90's...  Ahh
> the good old days
> of computing :)



       
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