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From: "William" <wschertz@ispwest.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: new web forum  was    Re: Bandwidth/Netiquitte Issue.. "reply to all"
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:01:44 -0600
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No,
You are not alone, I am dial up and find forums frustrating.
Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser # 4045
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie England" <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 10:36 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: new web forum was Re: Bandwidth/Netiquitte Issue.. 
"reply to all"


> Russell Duffy wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> John, these are EXACTLY my sentiments. I'm sincerely grateful to Marvin 
>> for hosting this list for as long as he has.  Never once has he requested 
>> anything for his trouble, nor do I believe he would accept any 
>> compensation if you offered it.  I really feel like I've grown to know 
>> many of the people on this list, and regard them as friends.
>> Unfortunately, I just can't overlook the advantages of using a web forum, 
>> and I believe it's time to move on to a new format.  I just can't see any 
>> disadvantage to doing that, though I expect that some folks will resist 
>> change.  I for one am ready to make a change, and have made the official 
>> first post in the new forum.  I even found "my" icon there :-)
>> Thanks for making this an option John.
>> Rusty (change can be good, unless I only have John to talk to)
> Uh.... there are some downsides, like 5-10 times the trouble for the 70% 
> of the world that are stuck with dialup (including me). I've tried several 
> forums like that & I find them so slow & frustrating to view that I never 
> go back. I can see about 30 headers at a time with regular email & email 
> list delivery. It's really frustrating to me if I have to go through 
> multiple clicks each time I want to see another block of maybe 5 headers, 
> wait for the page to load, then more clicks to see messages, wait for the 
> page to load, then the screen shows 60-80% framing detail instead of 
> 70-80% info with regular email.
>
> Am I the only one with these problems?
>
> With regular email & list servers, I only need to get online & click 'get 
> messages' to get all the info I'm interested in, instead of having to 
> navigate to 8 or 10 different web sites every day just to check on whether 
> there has been a new post.
>
> If everyone wants to move to the new format I'll follow, but it won't be 
> fun...
>
> Charlie
> bottom feeding traditionalist
>
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