A few observations from someone who used to contribute a fair bit but who is now a lurker.
With the major advances in the last few years with website indexing through search sites such as Google, to get any kind of new blood in to a site you need to have content that Google can crawl. As far as I am aware, after a message is posted on VFB and deleted from the Inbox of people it is gone forever. E-mail lists will never be able to compete with forums where information is held forever. The forum based groups have so much more to offer and are a lot more versatile than e-mail groups. The cost of running a forum is minimal - in fact it can be as good as free. There would be no need to request dues from anyone.... There is no content on the net for the VFB for people to pick up on, hence the lack of new posts coming through. Please don't view this as an attack on VFB, it is just honest feelings about e-mail lists, and is constructive rather than destructive. Chris -- Complete Fisher Forum www.completefisher.com/forum Complete Fisher Site www.completefisher.com
