<VV> Re: rejection and alternate archive

[Padgett]

>It is the natural progression of things... change.  I suspect what we will
>find is simply a younger group of people who prefer a forum format, and an
>older group of people that prefer email.

Errr I prefer a forum and have been working on my second half century for 
some time, mailists are so 1980s and a throwback to a time before the web. 
We have even been offered a free, modern, and dedicated slot on 
http://forums.aaca.org/ubbthreads.php . Did I mention free ? The forum I 
usually participate in has over 11000 threads and 63000 posts - for a car 
that had only 20,000 built in four years.

Group even has GM permission to host the service manuals (all but one year 
in .pdf) and the P&A online - and the service manuals are two inches thick. 
Makes explaining technical questions much easier.

Real time access, inline graphics, hosted attachments, and no repetition of 
posts (Eudora makes it easy to minimise quoting, threads make quoting 
unnecessary). Even tells you which threads have not been read and which 
have new postings. Egg in yer beer ?

Padgett