An important part of the history of the list is the WHY of how it came
to be. Originally, Stu's website was photos and scans, etc, and C&C
owners all followed a list sponsored by Sailnet. Sailnet got sold out
from under us, and after a lengthy discussion hauntingly similar to this
one, it was decided that no one wanted to move to another group hosted
outside of something that one of us owned and could hand off to another
member if that ever became necessary. Without this decision, we would
have gone in multiple directions and died off as a group. At that time,
there were more than one C&C forums available. We needed ONE common
point of communication in order to keep going. I think the list as it is
has worked great, and see no advantage to going to a clumsy forum, that
would also be competing with dime-a-dozen facebook groups and other web
based options. If Stu is having issues maintaining the list, then lets
address those issues rather than throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Bill Bina
On 3/14/2015 7:37 AM, Ron Ricci via CnC-List wrote:
Stu,
First, thank you for all the work you have put into setting up the list
and maintaining it. I am glad this topic has come up. It is somewhat
difficult to follow multiple emails which usually repeat what has
already been said. If it could be done, I’d enthusiastically vote for a
forum.
The town that I live in has a social networking forum called Nextdoor
Harvard. See https://harvardma.nextdoor.com/about_us/. We have about
6000 residents of which about 2000 have signed up for Nextdoor Harvard.
There is no cost to operate the forum and it is very flexible.
I get one email a day that summarizes new topics and new replies for
that day. (One can select getting new topics as they are posted.) If
you reply to a topic, you’ll automatically get other replies as they
occur. There is a method to control who can be a member. You can
browse by topic. There is provision to store documents for download and
a classified section.
If you are interested, I’ll contact Nextdoor to see if they would allow
a ‘neighborhood’ of boat owners. I can also find out from the guy who
maintains the forum, what effort is required.
Regards,
/Ron/
Ronald V. Ricci
S/V Patriot
C&C 37+
Bristol, RI
ron.ri...@1968.usna.com <mailto:ron.ri...@1968.usna.com>
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