<VV> New Forum

[Bryan Blackwell]

There are a couple of things on my requirements list, if the goal is  
to unite, rather than fragment.  One is there, one is missing, but  
they both tie to the same goal:

An ability to view *all* the threads - which it does.  I think a lot  
of people underestimate the value of being able to read everything  
easily.  Do you really want Smitty to *not* read about the engine  
problem in a late model?  Do you want John Roberts to skip your wiring  
post about an early?  I could go on, but you get the idea - don't  
expect there to only be one place to post something.

An e-mail gateway.  There are several things a web forum *doesn't* do  
- like allow you to read posts if you're offline, or save them to an  
archive.  I don't know if Scott has that implemented or not.

I'll tell people right now, some people read most everything.  If you  
make that too hard, they won't.  There is a downside to that.  I don't  
go to the F-150 site very often, even tho Ellie's had one for years.   
I go when I'm curious about something, but I don't go just to read.   
Web forums are "pull", e-mail is "push".  Something to consider when  
you need to know *now*.  We like to use the business world as a model  
for CORSA, so how does business communicate things that are important?

--Bryan

On Dec 9, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Mel Francis wrote:

> I've already been over to the new forum, and what I can see that it  
> offers
> already, is the topics broken out into
> individual threads, so if you want to avoid certain discussions, you  
> can
> just concentrate on the ones you like.