Future of this group

[Dan DiBiase]

If you're going to do an email group, at least use Google. They don't get
broken into as much as Yahoo. Personally, I'd prefer a FB group.

Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA
http://dandibiase.cbintouch.com/


On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:52 AM Cody <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:

> Do yahoo email groups still exist? I thought that service was shut down.
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> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM -0500, "Kneale Brownson" <
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> How about a Yahoo email group? Avoids the Facebook mess.
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> > On Dec 12, 2018, at 6:24 PM, W. Bean  wrote:
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> > The greatest thing about an "audifans" FB group page would be that it
> maintained the one-size-fits-all nature of what the original Q-list did,
> and wouldn't be model or chassis specific like the bulk of the groups/pages
> out there.  Being on FB already (although there are days I consider
> shutting the whole thing down for any number of reasons) I'd support it.
> The problem with it is there are the hold-outs who have never embraced
> social media (or even forums) and rely on the various email lists to get
> answers, even with very little audience.  They'd be left in the wasteland
> of what once was.  What's more, the problem with QW is that a lot of the
> very valuable posts are so old that the pictures are no longer hosted and
> there are TONS of broken links. It's sad really, because there's probably
> no single source of FAQ / BTDT type info as there is in the QW and AW
> archives, save of course the q-list archives, which of course didn't have
> pics and are in archaic email format.
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> > It's no secret that q-list (much less that of the many spin off lists)
> traffic will never be even a sliver of what it once was, because most have
> moved on in life.   Like Cody, I appreciated the fact that it was sent to
> me instead of having to go search it out, and still reply when I have
> something to add. Like many, I had to get the digests because of the
> unbelievable volume of emails the list used to generate.  Obviously that
> hasn't been necessary in years.  The same holds regarding traffic on
> QuattroWorld and AudiWorld.  Usage is nothing like it was 10ish years ago,
> largely with the advent of FB groups, and of course, you've gotta go
> searching, which I haven't done "regularly/daily" in years. So, what to do.
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> >> Since the list so unceremoniously vanished 8ish months ago, but is now
> mysteriously back we can now have a chance to organize a potential
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> > I'd vote for a Facebook group. There are currently a couple pre-existing
> such as the "Large chassis Audi" group, but I think an Audifans group would
> be nice. Bonus: it's easy to post pictures and share pertinent articles
> etc. I'd volunteer to admin it and invite some of the old guard here to
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> > Alternately we can move to the forums on Audiworld, but personally I
> hate their format and constantly forget to go check them out. The concept
> of the conversation being delivered to me is why I stuck with this list for
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> > Of course we could always get a separately hosted mailing list together
> too. I have a server that can run it, but then we are back to relying on a
> central singular person to maintain it.
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