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Nah, Cyril, burnin's too good for the varmint!! Mebee a sesshun in "Gitmo" wull straytun 'im owt! Thun agin, wot can ya expekt, onin one uv them thar air contrapshuns wot flys backwoods?? Leest he'll get an ideah of wot a reuhl airyplane is on thuh way ovah thar!!
Seriously guys, I really like the way this list is. If I have one complaint, (well, ... maybe two or three), it's that some of the posters don't trim the quotebacks as Marv has requested, and they don't bother to adjust the subject line when the subject is changed considerably. A third minor complaint is that some continue to "bottom post" (a habit probably carried over from ACRE). This REALLY becomes a pain when the message isn't trimmed, and is full of six or eight iterations of quotebacks, which basically have nothing to do with the stated subject except maybe the first couple.
Apart from that, leave it alone. Don't try to fix what 'ain't broke!!
Hoo Roo,
Leon
Quoting Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>:
Wheers the stiks and farwood, Vern? I thunk we'se has us herein a
Heritic.
I belong to a couple of web forums, John. No question they have some
nice
features, but old dogs, new trick. I find I spend more time on this
form -
not certain its because it takes longer to read through all the stuff
because we lack some of the features, you mentioned - or I just like the
manner of exchange and folks better here.
But, in any case, I remember when this list was started by Marv as a
"alternative" list for the rotary fliers and I guess in my opinion it
seems
to work fine for the most part. I think the "more advanced web types"
might find it somewhat crude and constrained, but for most of us it does
the
job. I really would not like to see the "rotary community" divided
again -
but, that's just my view on the topic.
Okkk, Vernn - brung out the torch! I's got thu wood stack'n around the
varmit.
Ed A
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Slade" <sladerj@bellsouth.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 9:30 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Bandwidth/Netiquitte Issue.. "reply to all"
> All,
> > I am speaking only for myself, but I archive every single post and
see
> > very little reason to have duplicates of ANY post
> You're not alone. I'm sure most of us keep a local copy of every
single
> post.
> Like me, you probably rarely look at it because it isn't easy to find
stuff.
> What a waste!
>
> >Every time Paul Conner posts, we get some sort of attachment that
says
> there's no virus.
> As Rusty says, this is reason 473 why mail lists are the Lycosaurus of
> electronic communication.
>
> >web forums are so vastly superior to mail lists in this day and age.
> Sorry. I can't pass up an opportunity like this. Here we are,
struggling
> with unwanted attachments and extra copies, fighting html, top or
bottom
> posting, archiving our own copies, and emailing our email addresses to
> hundreds of virus vulnerable computers 50 times a day. Are we all
nuts?
> There's good technology out there. Let's use it.
>
> I help manage the canard forum at http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net
> The majority of members are rotary enthusiasts. The forum is running
on a
> member's business server and he maintains it for free. There's lots of
free
> space. While the main forum is for pilots who fly the "Wright" way,
it's
> trivial to add a section dedicated to Fly-Rotary. I just did. It can
be
> found at http://canardaviationforum.dmt.net/forumdisplay.php?f=59
>
> Now let me be plain - I read this mail list 4 times a day or more, and
I
> find the information and the camaraderie here very very valuable. I
also
> read the canard forum and the Cozy list. This means I have to sift
through
a
> bunch of irrelevant text to be sure I don't miss anything important. A
few
> decades ago, around the time they came out with the 2nd gen 13B,
someone
> invented a concept called "Threads". They can be made sticky, moved,
updated
> and organized hierarchically for easy access. You can edit/correct
your
> posts (what a concept!) and set it up so you get an email when a
thread
> you're interested in gets a posting. The WIKI idea, while commendable,
is
a
> poor representation of 1/10 of the features of a forum. Come on, guys
-
> let's do it right, and all in one place!
>
> The last thing I want to do is cause trouble, get excommunicated for
heresy,
> or split up this wonderful group, but I just can't see a valid reason
to
> keep struggling with old technology. We don't do it with our
airplanes.
Why
> do it with our computers? The perfect solution, in my humble opinion,
would
> be for everyone reading this message to log into the above forum
address,
> create an ID, and start communicating effectively from here on.
>
> Anyone with me?
>
> John (running and ducking for cover)
>
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> >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/
> >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html
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