Shows you how much I know. I thought this was strictly a Listserv style forum, didn't realize I could do that.
never mind..... And Don, thanks for the history lesson. There is a wealth of info here. ________________________________ From: sailmark4 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 9:55:17 AM Subject: [IC27A] Re: An actual forum perhaps?? 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. >
