Bob Saville wrote: > Hi Ed, > This is just an alternative thought, and by no means a suggestion. > I have also been reading all the discussion about the EOC web page and > at first it really excited me and I could hardly wait to see it become a > reality. > Now, after thinking it over, I'm wondering if it is really such a good > idea for a couple of reasons. First of all, it we call it the > "Official" EOC webpage then everything posted on it would have to be > researched for accuracy, safety, legality etc. (as we stand now with the > coupers mailing list it's just a bunch of us posting oppinions, ideas, > what-if's, etc., and noone can be held liable for any legal, safe, or > accurate specs.) Maybe I'm paranoid but I'd hate to see any lawsuits or > accidents come about from having an "Official" title hung on it. > What about having a good "working realtionship" with EOC on the > "mailinglist" ie: we could advertise for membership in the EOC on our > page and Skip could advertise our "non-affiliated" coupe page in "Coupe > Capers" and from that point on we could just help each other in coupes, > safety, parts sources etc.?
You bring up good points for discussion. Having a web page brings neither more nor less liability for correctness than does Coupe Capers. We will, count on it, have the same disclaimer for accuracy as is in Coupe Capers. Yet having an "Official" site lets us make available things that otherwise could not be: 1. 337s that have been sent to the club. 2. Articles that have been sent to the club for publication. (Otherwise we have to seek each author individually to ask for permission to use their material then re-type and re-edit the material.) 3. Membership lists. 4. Members ads 5. more. A site hosted by the club would have publishing rights to all the material sent to the club unless web rights were specifically denied us. Every editor wants to have "overset" material (stuff that's been typeset and edited but for which there wasn't room in the publication). This lets the editor keep the quality higher and fill in gaps when there is a material shortage. Perhaps the overset material could be published on a web site. My first impression (not set in stone) is that special stuff would be behind a member sign-in/password. The general support-the-Coupe stuff would be out in the public area. This "official" page would be above and beyone the stuff that individuals would create. I'll probably have a Coupe sub-section in my own web page. I think we can pretty well count on having links from the "official" page to individual pages. Does this seem like a good justification for an "official" page to you? You brought up excellent thoughts that need to be discussed. What other thoughts do you have? -- Ed Burkhead East Peoria, Ill. N3802H, 415-D
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