[DeTomaso] POCA website forum

[Asa Jay Laughton]

This forum is like walking into a big room with plenty of experts 
hanging around.  All you have to do is sit and listen to the conversations.

Using an on-line forum is like walking into a huge building with lots of 
doors leading to all the experts in different rooms.  You can't just sit 
and listen in and chime in when you hear something interesting.  You 
have to choose a door, and if the conversation isn't what you're looking 
for, you have to exit one room and go to another.

I'm a member of several other on-line forums.  Some I've not visited in 
over a year.  One I found no longer existed one day when I desperately 
needed assistance on an issue.  Yea... that was a real bummer.

I don't begrudge Larry his opinion, because he's right in some ways, 
there -are- people who are more comfortable with the on-line forum. And 
in many cases you can set you account up to get email notifications of 
postings.  For a while, I had my account on the POCA site set to send me 
an email anytime anyone posted in any topic, or created a new topic.  It 
was great and I think it allowed responding by email.  So it wasn't 
really a bad alternative.

And yes, Larry makes a good point about the Mailman archives being 
difficult to search, but they -are- searchable.  I can't remember who, 
but I know a few folks have figured out how to properly do a search from 
nearly any search engine and get tailored results from just this email 
list.  Anyway, yea, it's a little more difficult but can be done.

My biggest fear in losing this email list, is losing all the collective 
knowledge that -is- in the archives.  Yes, it may be hard to find, but 
there was no guarantee it was going to be preserved, when POCA spun up 
the new on-line forum.

I really do like this format, it suits my needs well. :)
Besides, I like walking in, sitting down and just listening you all.

Asa  Jay

Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
Spokane County ARES-RACES-ACS EC/RO
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https://w7tsc.org
https://www.teampanteraracing.com

On 2/23/2021 16:48, steve at snclocks.com wrote:
> This forum, as well as the Superformnce forum, are a great source of entertainment every day.  And a great source of knowledge.  With 8 cars, I am signed up on lots of forums.  Not to mention machinist, dulcimer, clocks, physical fitness...  Which I never visit.
>
> My e-mail folder is set to sort by subject line - so I see all the relevant e-mails grouped together.
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> This forum is a great group of folks who are ever so slightly irrelevant a well as irreverent.  Amazingly everyone seems to get along. Wow - what the heck, must be the common love of a car, and the love of how easy it is to follow what is going on.
>
> My 2 cents, which, today, are no longer worth 2 cents.
>
> Stephen Nelson
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