Well yes I thought this concern would come up. For a long time I've never been a fan of mailing lists, and have been looking for an alternative or supplement. Forums run the advantage that everything is grouped by topic, as well as subject, and all comments / replies can be seen on the one page. I'm aware that the archive feature of the mailing list does the same thing, but nowhere near as efficiently. There are also the features of voting / polls for those controversial questions we all have, automatic emails notifying you of whenever someone has replied to your post, and many others that are best experienced by trying it out. Personally, I find it a lot easier at work to look at a forum than go through a month's worth of emails to find what I want. The search function helps a lot in these cases too.
I'm going to be doing a lot of work on the wiki over the next two weeks, as I enter into a nightmare run of 10 consecutive 12-hour night shifts at work, so I urge everyone to submit as much info as I can, as articles are going to start appearing quite rapidly. So even if you don't know how to drive a wiki, just put up anything and I'll clean it up over the coming weeks. On that note, I've also managed to secure the name http://www.wikiglide.com , which is going to be even easier to remember, and hopefully that will become active in the next 24 hours or so. Thankyou to everyone who's already helped me out so much with this... whether it be submitting articles to the wiki or posting notices up on the forum. Happy flying, Gus On 1/25/06, Scott Penrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent :-) > > The wiki up there is going to be great for us. > > I do want to make a small comment on the forum though. A forum and an > email list are the same thing. There are email list archive viewers > which can show the information from the list (yes by topic, threaded > etc) in almost the same view as a forum. The advantages through are > that people can do it either way - on the web or purely via email and > is doesn't fragment two lists. > > It is great to have the new site, and I will definitely be > contributing. My concern is only small and only over duplication or > fragmenting what we have. Maybe if people disagree and say we should > have a forum we should put down some basic ideals - ie: what should > go in the forum vs the mail list. > > Thanks heaps for doing this Gus :-) > > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
