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

[Kirby Smith]

Although I'm a fan of the features of vBulletin, a forum type of
interface is only needed, in my opinion, if the number of emails (or
sections of a digest) exceeds the ability of the lister to scan through
them in the time he can allocate to it.  IMO, this is not yet the case
with the S-car list.

kirby

Keith Maddock wrote:
>
> I'm also an advocate of staying with the mailing list, rather than a Audi-world-eqsque web based bulliten board.  I doubt I would be an active member of this community if it moved to a pure web-interface.
>
> I do miss the search and web-interface to the list that yahoogroups offered (but I don't miss the ads and junk mail).   Perhaps we can convince Dan (perhaps through some paypal grease) to look into upgrading his web interface to include easier web-acess to the archives and search capability, etc.
>
> Dan, is this a possibility?
>
> Keith
>
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> Slip Control Systems, Systems Design, Traction Control
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>
> >>> "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com> 12:33:45 26.09.2002 >>>
>
> 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
>
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