[simpits-tech] Friday Humour - a dilemma

[Al West]

On Sunday 01 February 2004 18:54, Marv De Beque wrote:
> Actually, the forum does make more sense, but I am baffled as to why we
> don't use it.
>

I'd be interested to know why forums make more sense? 

Personally I hate forums, they are quite unfriendly and are inhierently flawed 
in that they all use different standards and most seem to concentrate on 
bells and whistles rather than providing a good text 
interfaces/functionality.  For low use (less than 100 messages a day) mail 
lists do quite well and for anymore than that then there are newsgroups - 
great when used in conjuction with google. Also it's much easier to get away 
with reading emails at working rather than browsing websites. Emails arrive 
during the day and I read them at convenience. 

Some users of this list might be interested in filters - most email/news 
programs have them and allow you to do things like delete, move, pass 
downloading of a message or run an external program (like SpamAssassin) 
depending on things like subject, sender, contents etc. However they are only 
any use if people use things like OT (off topic) or FS (for sale - ha or 
FlightSim).

Cheers for now,
Al


> On 2/1/04 1:36 PM, "Craig Rochester" <johncraigroch at msn.com> wrote:
> > So why don't we move over to the forum?  The forum format as all the
> > functionality to eliminate
> > these issue.
> >
> > Craig R.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org
> > [mailto:simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org]On Behalf Of Steve Wilson
> > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:38 PM
> > To: Simulator Cockpit tech list
> > Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Friday Humour - a dilemma
> >
> >
> > Roy, on a forum site where people go to post their OT BS and can pick and
> > choose what they read, I'd agree with you.  But when such threads mean
> > numerous emails for everyone on the list regardless of their interest in
> > the topic, I can't say I agree nor that the protest is a "whine."  Not
> > everyone has a broadband connection, and lots of folks don't use an
> > online email browser, and so are forced to waste bandwidth downloading
> > something they may rather avoid.  I've seen times when this crowd went
> > far afield and there was more OT than simpit.
> >
> > Steve W.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roy Coates" <roy at flightlab.liv.ac.uk>
> > To: "Simulator Cockpit tech list" <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 9:09 AM
> > Subject: RE: [simpits-tech] Friday Humour - a dilemma
> >
> >> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Mike Williams wrote:
> >>> Well Roy at least you were not your usual self and kill a good running
> >>> thread, I thought Gene set up the offtopic list for just such bullshit?
> >>
> >> We're all sim fans, many of us are building pits - we've something in
> >> common and that generally extends to our sense of humour too.
> >>
> >> I see no harm in off topic postings, many people prefix them with OT:
> >> and in this in it was obviously off-topic with the subject "Friday
> >> Humour". If you're not interested in off-topic posts, then its easy
> >> enough to avoid them.
> >>
> >> Some people just like to whine I guess.
> >>
> >> Roy.
> >>