There you go, Nev! when you wrote that, I suddenly remembered using that forum about 4-5 years ago. I guess that it didn't get a lot of traffic and went to the corner of my brain that's a little dusty. I was only pointing out that I see high traffic on forums that have less members than VFB, not suggesting disbanding the e-mail list. Frankly, if Jimmy and Tony like the mail list, that's good enough for me.
--- Neville Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent this response yesterday, but it never arrived > for some unknown reason > so here it is again.......Nev Gosling > > Chappie, Jeff and list members: > > I find it strange that you would suggest a change to > the forum format. Why? > Because Byard introduced the forum format five or > more years ago. It has > been available since 2002 and no one on VFB uses it. > See: > > http://www.virtualflybox.com/ > > then go to Participate and Forum! > > Personally, I strongly dislike the forum format and > would lose interest > quickly if that comes to pass. Flyangler.ca and > Spey Pages both operate on > the forum format but they get little input from me. > I find that with > Flyangler.ca I sometimes have to sign in twice to > get to the section I want. > i.e fly swaps & fly-tying as opposed to fly fishing. > I much prefer the > e-mail list and consider it more user friendly. It > is the actual > conversations and topics that drives a list such as > this. > > Byard used to be more involved in the early days but > we see little input > from him now which is a pity. > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > Greater Vancouver > B. C. Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chapman, Chris > Sent: November 13, 2007 08:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [VFB] What do we need to get the list > going like it used to be? > > > 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. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
