[s-cars] Future of this group

[Dave Ellis]

Hi All,

I agree with Ti that the email forum is a good format.  It allows 
archiving and is great for searching for solutions to issues that may 
have been posted about years earlier.  A web forum isn't bad, but is a 
lot more resource intensive and requires logging in etc. I'd vote 
Facebook last as it's an awful format and difficult to try and search 
for very specific things that are more than a few weeks old.

I haven't seen anything from Dan in a long time.  If he's MIA for a 
protracted amount of time then we may have to consider moving to a new 
format / list.

As a system administrator specializing in communications I would be 
willing to volunteer to run a low resource list similar to what we have 
now if needed.  Adding attachment support for photos etc is relatively 
trivial if that's what folks want.  Adding additional list moderators to 
help manage things would also be a possibility.

The only caveat is that I'm in a *very* rural area now and I do tend to 
loose Internet connectivity two or three times a year due to trees 
falling on the lines, etc.  Typically outages are only a few hours, but 
every few years can be a day or two.  To host the server somewhere with 
redundant Internet connectivity and service uptime guarantees would 
require some expense and some form of fundraising, which I'm not 
terribly keen on getting involved with.

Let me know what you think,
-Dave



On 2018-12-13 4:24 PM, Ti Kan wrote:
> Yes, Yahoo groups still exist. I’m on several of them and they’re working now.
>
> I have Facebook and subscribe to several Audi groups, there are some good and bad things about that format. I like the ability post pictures, and using their Messenger app for private conversations. But Facebook posts “age” quickly, roll off the bottom and disappear. It’s hard to find an old post from just a few days or weeks ago.
>
> Forums are a good format and there are already numerous ones for Audis out there, such as Audizine.  But again you need to log in to read and post messages.
>
> To keep the flavor of the q-list (and the associated sub-lists), I would like to see it remain in an email format, but with the ability to attach pictures.  Yahoo groups does not allow that.
>
> The current audifans server doesn’t allow it either, but I think it’s just an admin configuration option.  The problem is that we don’t seem to have an admin. Who is hosting the list now, and who is paying for the audifans.com domain registration?
>
> -Ti