I used to have a Columbia and belonged to their Yahoo forum. You think this group has a lot of messages, check out theirs. Wow! So when I got by Catalina and joined this sight, (which is great BTW) I set it up so that I don't get the messages e-mailed to me, I just veiw them on the web when I want and can glance over the subject lines and read the ones I want-which ends up being most of them anyway.
Mark #4289 Solution --- In [email protected], Don Brooks <brooksd...@...> wrote: > > 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 <mediahound2...@...> wrote: > > > From: John Daily <mediahound2...@...> > 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. >
