Hello Marck, Friday, October 25, 2002, 5:22:58 AM, you wrote:
MDP> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- MDP> Hash: SHA1 MDP> Hi Angel, MDP> @24-Oct-2002, 21:45 -0700 (05:45 UK time) Angel [A] in MDP> mid:6093719401.20021024214513@;email.com said: ACM>>> This is why the board would need dedicated participants to ACM>>> offer prompt help if you're all serious about getting it to ACM>>> successfully take off. A>> I really hope it is considered, and seriously so. MDP> I don't know if this has been made clear but the neither the TB list MDP> moderators nor the TB list hosters have expressed any interest in MDP> creating, hosting or moderating such a board. Hello Marck and everyone, I have been following the discussion of a proposal to have a novice forum setup on the web. Many points have been raised: Who would run it? What form it would take, blah, blah. Perhaps a forum is not what's needed. As an example, I am a novice user of some art software called Xara X, Xara supports a forum (for lack of a better term) containing tutorials (the XaraXone.com). Yes, there's a conference section, but that seems to me most like having these email discussions, but it's the tutorials I've gone for. I have learned more about the program than any other program I have had because the tutorials are so well written. In order to solve this problem for the new users, clearly they're intimidated by the industrial look of TB! - why not design a good, follow-the-steps set of tutorials that can help a new person settle in? It probably wouldn't do to separate out the boards to multi- user and single user, (which I often imagined) because many of the issues are the same, though to be honest, I'm bored stiff by the programming the multi users have to do. As a single user, I will NEVER encounter many of the issues that come up for the networked corporate user, but occasionally there are some things that pertain. One of the other considerations people have mentioned in this thread is the visibility of TB!, a separate topic from the forum idea. It would be nice for RitLabs - or perhaps all the resellers as a group - to have a webpage clearly labeled TheBat.com or somesuch. Yes, then people on Google or whoever, would be able to find them. Have a tutorial section. Have a template download section. Lots of ideas. -- Fond regards to all Bats, mm mailto:mmeister@;sprintmail.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
