[V8] Re: How 'bout a website?

[Phil Rose]

At 7:42 PM -0800 1/26/04, Greg Johnson wrote:
>Mike and Phil,
>
>I think you guys may be talking apples and oranges here.  I don't 
>think Dan would be perturbed if you guys started a V8 website

Well, possibly he wouldn't, but if I were in Dan's shoes, I might 
well be perturbed to learn (after the fact) that my own mail list was 
used to promote creation of a new website that could be competitive 
with my own site (see below). To inform Dan and solicit his opinion 
just helps keep the peace.

>  a V8 website which I would respectfully suggest would be very 
>different from a V8 List.  There's no reason that both cannot 
>co-exit.

I think it's _you_ who's talking apples and oranges. I'm trying to 
focus on an "apples and apples" issue, i.e., that there already is a 
web site, www.audifans.com, that has been trying (ever so slowly) to 
incorporate much of what Mike's hypothetical V8 web site might offer.

>   The website could be an easy place to keep FAQs, pictures and 
>other similar info,

True, but have you visited www.audifans.com lately? Dan's site (with 
Mark Chang's input) has for some time offered an owner registry and 
also posts photos of cars (when listers submit them). IMO, it 
wouldn't take much to organize the V8 registry into a page of its 
own. Furthermore, how many listers are aware that www.audifans.com 
_already_ has the framework/mechanism in place for generating 
model-specific FAQs. Here's the URL showing the early stages of a V8 
FAQ:
http://www.audi-quattro.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Audi/V8. All it takes 
is more lister input to expand it.

It seems to me that a volunteer who would be willing to create an 
independent V8 site might also consider offering to help create a 
unified (and expanded) V8 section within the audifans site. At least 
that alternative seems worth exploring.

Phil
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Phil Rose				Rochester, NY USA
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