Hi Steve,
There are other online Tiger communities, and quite a few people
participate in more than one. Go visit www.teae.org and check out their
online forum - it's basically what you're describing.
I find that, while the bulletin-board style of forum preserves each
topic in its own chronological space, it also requires you to
individually page through all the subjects to catch up on what's going
on, and if there's any significant traffic volume at all, that becomes a
big time sink, and you may miss out on threads in subjects whose
sub-forums you don't often visit. The mailing list operates in exactly
the opposite way: Messages get pushed to you, and you see all the
traffic. Some mail readers can do threading for you; they'll sort stuff
by at least the subject, and if possible index by who replied to what.
When tigersunited.com was first brought online, it also featured a
bulletin board type forum, but it never attracted enough people to gain
critical mass (most of the visitors to tu.com were already subscribers
to this mailing list), and so it languished and was eventually
mothballed. There was just no reason to create yet another parallel
information exchange.
Cheers,
Theo
-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces+theo.smit=dynastream.com@autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces+theo.smit=dynastream.com@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of sralsten@ca.rr.com
Sent: June 17, 2008 10:13 AM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: [Tigers] A better way to communicate ?
Yes, I know it must get easier with experience and I know I am certainly
the new kid around here so what right do I have to suggest any changes.
BUT....
I have a hard time following some of these conversations. Either the
same longish original message gets repeated over and over and the brief
answer to it gets lost or sometimes (Drmoonstone) leaves it out
completely and an answer appears that is fairly difficult (for me at
least) to connect to a question. Either way you go it seems difficult.
Has this group ever used a regular message board ? They are much easier
to follow and your replies become instantly available for the public to
read. Subjects stay seperate rather than being intermingled (heads,
BMW, BMW, heads, heads, heads,Subway, etc) There is an existing
Britishcarforum that I discovered that has a seperate Sunbeam forum that
is rarely used by anyone. I have some experience with creating a
discussion board on a non car topic that is really pretty cheap to do
and can allow for picture files to be uploaded and displayed with posts.
Steve
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