John, The Short Answer is... Email is Personal and warm, Forums are impersonal and cold !
I'm not being argumentative here, but, You answered your own question. You don't care for the Personal touch, you prefer Hard copy facts To me, I'd get bored if all I had to read was .. Facts Some people like to "Open up " mail to see what their "Friends" have to say. Other's would rather read the pages of a newspaper. Thankfully, there are many of us who like to read what " people " say and think. We enjoy the idea of Mail. I should imagine that You and others who would rather have a TEXT approach to communications, would subscribe to the various Forums that are available to you. Might I suggest http://catalina.sailboatowners.com/ They've been around for some time. Of course, since you've already "wandered" over to Sailnet, You might think about Starting a C-27 forum yourself. "Antiquated means of communication" ? Sorry, I'll have to disagree with your comment. There's nothing antiquated with using the Personal touch.. Good Luck in your search, Ralph Ahseln "Oblio" Lying: Portland OR From: John Daily Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IC27A] An actual forum perhaps?? 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.
