[s-cars] Isn't there a better way...

[Lee Levitt]

Dave writes:
> Isn't there a better way...to read posts. The audiworld site
> seems far superior to this site in many respects. I had an A4 and
> found the Audiworld sites forums were very easy to post to, read
> threads of interest,navigate, and search archives. Pictures can
> be included. The posts appear in real time. It took me five trys
> to download the audifans S-car Sept archives . Very aggravating.
> Anyone up for a trial period overthere; perhaps 2 weeks to see
> how things go? If there are obvious reasons why not to use
> Audiworld, I'd like to be enlightened.

There's a qualitative diffence in the quality of community on email lists
versus webboard discussion groups. With email lists, subscribers are
somewhat more committed to the quality of the interaction, while with
webboards, people frequently conduct "driveby" postings - posting something
interesting/useless/nasty and then never come back to see the results.

IMCO (and I've been managing mailing lists since 1995), nothing is broken
here. We've got a nice little community that is dedicated to sharing
information with one another, and it works. Move it to a different type of
technical infrastructure and you put that community at risk.

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant