[Gmecm] Re: Digest v. Forum

[Ryan Hess]

Data is lost?  I'm on probably 20 forums for everything from v6's to engineering.  Of those 20, one forum has a problem with going down occasionally.  There has NEVER been a loss of data or posts on ANY of the forums in the 10+ years I've been on them.  Never.

Conversely, I have had emails get lost.  I have no idea how that happens, but apparently it does.  It might be 1/100th of 1%, but it's there.  

Who's going to mind it?  Whoever wants to.  Nominate a couple admins.  I'll do it without hesitation.  It's no surprise thirdgen gets soooo many people from other backgrounds.  "How do I tune my $DF code?"  "I'm running an MG with a 3.4DOHC, which binary do I need?"  Probably 20% of the posts there are not thirdgen related, which I think goes to show the number of people who want a general GM tuning/PROM/ECM/EFI forum.  

What I was sort of surprised of, was the number of people who have heard of this list, but don't sign up because they hate "spam".  In that case, emails they'd rather not receive.

Everybody is happy now only because it's no work to keep it the way it is, and to be honest I think everybody is afraid of change.

"Burntkat at sc.rr.com" <burntkat at sc.rr.com> wrote: Observations:

Use of a simple global search expression is quite handy with things as they
are.

Your points about forums are valid- except most forums search engines
absolutely SUCK. Also, when- not if- the forum software crashes, your data
is lost.

Who's going to mind the forum?

This has already been put to vote. Democracy ruled.

-----Original Message-----
From: gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org [mailto:gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf
Of Sam Reed
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:07 AM
To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
Subject: [Gmecm] Re: Digest v. Forum

My $0.02: as a digest this thing is almost impossible to read, with
everyone's headers and footers the garbage/signal ratio is about 80:1, and
if I want to look up something it takes forever.  In a forum everything
would be neatly organized for later retrieval and would be much easier to
read.  If someone were to start their own ECM tuning forum, that would be
great, and I'm sure everyone would use it.  Digest v. forum is like
carburetion v. EFI...

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