Many of us oldtimers were on Sailnet back in 2004 when Sam and Cheryl Boyle founded the site. Since that was a while back, my rememberer may be off a little. The site had many forums and sold merchandise. The site was not producing enough income, so a $15 membership fee was required to use the site. After the first year, the cost went up to $36. The site would lock up for days and the archives dumped and all were lost. Merchandise would often take months to be delivered. The Boyles finally sold the site. People that had ordered merchandise, never received it. Many of us got tired of being jacked around. Some went to SailJazz, some went to c...@yahoo (prior to IC27A) and Catalina Owners. Hopefully, Sailnet is back on track and doing well. I think this site is doing great and has a wealth of information. It only takes a second to delete anything that does not interest you. That's my story....... Don, Oldtimer, #6293, Niceville, FL
--- On Fri, 7/16/10, John Daily <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Daily <[email protected]> Subject: [IC27A] An actual forum perhaps?? To: [email protected] Date: Friday, July 16, 2010, 6:38 AM So I wake up this morning after not checking my Yahoo mail account and found over 20 messages in it, mostly from this group. While I would have liked to have read them, the daunting task of having to open each one, read it, delete it or save it, open the next one, yadayadayada. ...had me cringing, so I just deleted all of them because the subject matter on them really didn't interest me enough to go through the process. This is a daily occurrence with me as I'm sure it is with others. Now I'm not an IT guy nor a web developer but I do know there are much better ways for people who share a common interest such as THEE MOST POPULAR SAILBOAT EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD to share information and communicate. I wonder how many people just simply delete or put in their spam box anything that comes in with the header IC27A. So in this line of thinking I wander over to Sailnet.com just to be sure I'm not missing something. Wouldn't you know it, there's a forum for every Catalina ever made EXCEPT the 27. Surely something is amiss. What gives folks?? I've not been on here long so could one of the older members please explain to me why we have to use an antiquated means of communicating when there is what appears to be a perfectly good forum tool just waiting for us to use.
