au contraire. I have to subscribe to a forum because I am a Betatester for a proprietary business program and I frequently forget to look at it. Also, when I was on a dial up, it took a long time to download messages.
I am now on ADSL which has made it faster but I much prefer an email list and liberal use of the delete button as required. PeterS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Anyone interested in creating a gliding Wiki ? > 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 > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
