[Gmecm] The forum lives...

[Andrew Huxtable]

Mark,
	I find it interesting that you think that there are too many
categories for the new forum.  I mean, I agree to a point, yes, there are a
few but I think that in general 90% of the posts will either be in 'General
GMECM discussion', 'Tuning', or 'Getting started'

I'm going to start some polls on the site soon to try and get some idea of
what people think of the current layout and will make changes accordingly.

Andrew

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From: gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org [mailto:gmecm-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Mansur
Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:15 PM
To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
Subject: Re: [Gmecm] The forum lives...

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(In response to a previous email, quotation is important, be it in email or 
in a forum. For example...)

>If we could filter out the MSN-speak chaff, we'd really have something!

Can that be done in this email format? Let's see:

=) lol. ROTFL.

I guess not. Perhaps that means we don't have something now? It's really up 
to the poster (or sender of the email) to refrain from these kinds of 
things.

For what it's worth (or "FWIW"), I think a forum format has solid merit. A 
forum that most closely follows the mailing list "feel" is one that has as 
few categories as possible (does an email list have categories?), is as 
simple as possible, and offers email subscription to threads. The forum in 
its current incarnation has far too many categories. I personally prefer a 
forum over a mailing list, so I'm very happy to see the experimentation that

is currently happening around this. I'm a member here because there's no 
other way to get the (wonderful) information available via this list; the 
archive is laughable, IMO (IMO = "In my opinion" for the non-mavens of 
"MSN-speak" among us).

That's just my $2.50.

Oh, and, Steve - any chance we could have the archive asterisk-replace 
portions of our email addresses? The <email alias> "at" <domain.tld> format 
as it uses currently is pretty easily parsed by spam bots these days via the

major search engines. I already have enough spam in my inbox, which, 
ironically, is another reason I prefer forums.

-M

PS - this is light-heartedly written


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cowen" <captain_krill at yahoo.com>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 6:02 PM
Subject: [Gmecm] The forum lives...


I've been lurking, with a few posts when I think I can
contribute, for about 2 years.  The Jeep is running so
well in closed loop with it's hodge-podge mix of GM
goodies, I haven't learned to reprogram - but I will
(for open loop improvements mostly).  I've become
accustomed to reading every post on the digest, and
I've slowly learned quite a bit.  You guys have a lot
of knowledge!
I wasn't sure I'd like the forum Andrew put together,
but I did enjoy looking it over.  That said, the
emoticons and LOL, OMG, ROTFL junk seems pretty
infantile.  AM I that old at 35??  If we could filter
out the MSN-speak chaff, we'd really have something!


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