In would agree with Chappy. Our club has a message
board system with different categories and with only
65 registered members it gets more hits than VFB. It's
a system that we get for free.
--- "Chapman, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Perhaps change the format from email to a forum
> format.
>
> I find that other forums are a lot easier to
> navigate different
> subjects. The use of emoticons makes creating
> messages relatively
> funny.
>
> I find that the VFB site is seldom updated like it
> was once I joined
> several years ago.
>
> I think online communities are transferring from
> pull to push - that is
> you go out and get involved where you want to -
> rather than receiving
> every post.
>
> I think without a format overhaul, it is difficult
> for new members to
> join.
>
> For example - if someone joins (who is familiar with
> forum layouts),
> then lets say they check their home email twice a
> week - as opposed to
> having perhaps 10 minutes a day of internet access.
> After
> participating in forums throughout the week, they
> then check their email
> and find 20 emails from VFB, perhaps covering 5-8
> subjects. The
> freshness of these banters might be a day old. Or,
> if they have
> another 20-30 personal emails, well you know the
> VFB's get deleted!! Oh
> no!!
>
> For some of us, we are trained to the email list. I
> have a subfolder
> set up and organized with a rule that if VFB is
> contained in the subject
> - it gets moved to the FLYBOX subfolder. However, I
> can only get them
> when connected to my PC and not my Treo (not sure
> why).
>
> Anyway - my 2 cents. Also, I have gotten a ton of
> helpful information
> from the list. I would love to give it back. But
> noone is asking. We
> are not getting newbies on the list (perhaps the
> non-forum format
> perhaps??)
>
> I will continue to host swaps in the future.
>
> Chappy.
>
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