I see your point David. I would note that on DIY electric car, they do e-mail whenever a comment is made after you comment , And I am not sure if it can be programmed to notify via E-Mail in case of a new discussion you have not commented in. The software for the program DIY EC uses was free and I use an net-hosting service which only charges $2 monthly including the web domain registration and they have been giving me good service on my 8 domains for about 5 years...www.EVprofessor.com , www.evti.org , and www.electricVehicleTechnicalinstitute.com (and the same .org ) And www.DennisLeeMiles.com and others... I also have faded away from DIY ec in the past four or five years. but I did have an icon on my desktop which fed it right in whenever I had time and the multiple discussion groups let me find items which appealed to me at the time and delay others until I had more time... It would seem to me if AOL and others are going to block our E-Mail we need a "Work-Around" and a forum like FYI or a Google group might be a reasonable alternative to consider, that is only my opinion, but now is perhaps the time to get ready... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It seems the major AOL gripe is using an alias for a return (FROM) address Cannot we use the true "FROM" and place a comment in the e-mail to direct all replies to the "EVDL.com" , or whatever is appropriate ???
*Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:51 PM, EVDL Administrator <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 May 2014 at 22:40, Dennis Miles wrote: > > > Perhaps we should convert to the system "DYI Electric Car" uses and > > check in occassionally on the conversations instead of having the > > torrents of E-Mails we are accustomed to. Changing with the times, so > > to speak. > > This is a discussion we've had countless times over the years. It's been a > while, so I suppose we're going to have to go over it again. ;-) > > Though I'm not a regular at DIY, as far as I can tell, they do the webforum > thing pretty well. What would an EVDL webforum have to offer over that? > What would prompt people to give some of their valuable time to us, when > there's already an ongoing and effective resource of the same type? > > An EVDL webforum would probably be ad-free and noncommercial. However, my > perception is that while that matters to me and a few other people, most > folks just block the ads. Some block them with browser plugins; others > block them in their minds, or at least they think they do. > > We'd certainly be more for privacy. We wouldn't track our users or sell > their preference data (I don't know for sure that DIY does this, but most > ad- > supported sites do; just view the page source to see all the calls to > third- > party URLs). Again, though, I think that matters to only a small number of > people. > > IMO, the fact that the EVDL uses email is its main advantage. Maybe I'm > not > typical, but I have logins on several webforums for my other interests. I > find one that's interesting, sign up, read it for a while, contribute here > and there - and then get busy and drift away. I have links for lots of > them > in my browser's bookmarks toolbar, but I still don't visit most daily, or > even weekly. > > I read EVDL mail every day, simply because it's there when I open my mail. > But would I visit it on a webforum daily? Doubtful. Would you? Really? > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140502/f7266c31/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
