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April Neave & Norm Keller
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Post by April Neave & Norm Keller » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:17 pm

Please stop quoting the entire original message in replies! This practice makes it very time consuming to page through the digest and adds nothing to your message. Just my $0.02 Norm

Don Bittle
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Post by Don Bittle » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:01 am

I've seen this practice in every forum that I belong to. My guess is that lots of folks don't know how to delete unwanted parts of the message. I was guilty of this when I first got a computer. don
----- Original Message ----- From: "April Neave & Norm Keller" ! > > Please stop quoting the entire original message in replies! This

Don Leamon
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Post by Don Leamon » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:41 am

Body properly deleted. Uh, newbie to the list, but a www veteran (~'94), curious as to why this group is still using a mailing list, rather than a forum? Seems to me that there would be enough vendors out there that could provide support... Mailing lists are cool in that you see all threads, and mailing list are a major PITA because you see all threads. :-)

Don Van Dyke
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Post by Don Van Dyke » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:07 am

Ok, I'll bite. What's a forum? Can you point us to any samples? At 11:40 PM 1/10/2005 -0700, Don Leamon wrote:
>Uh, newbie to the list, but a www veteran (~'94), curious as to why this >group is still using a mailing list, rather than a forum? Seems to me >that there would be enough vendors out there that could provide >support...
Don Van Dyke Sacramento, California Moto@... www.intellection.org

Jud Jones
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Post by Jud Jones » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:19 am

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Don Van Dyke wrote:
> Ok, I'll bite. > > What's a forum? Can you point us to any samples? >
www.klr650.net/forum/>

Don Leamon
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Post by Don Leamon » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:49 am

OK, my bad, I had come across the www.klr650.net/forum/ but in haste I failed to note that you had to register to even read the posts. Since it (forum layout) is, well kinda unprofessional looking, I thought it was not very active or even operational. That being said, what are the differences in knowledge/members between this list and that forum? I personally haven't used a list since like '97, and I prefer the forum format...

Erik
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Post by Erik » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:43 pm

> I personally haven't used a list since like '97, and I prefer the forum > format...
Maybe try to get a gmail.com account. The mail reader there is auto-threading, and I believe will make mailing list reading much more forum like. Me, I think you're cuckoo. I'm a www-veteran of roughly the same time frame as you (maybe a bit earlier; I started young), and you can have my mailing lists and terminal based email clients when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. erik

John Kokola
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Post by John Kokola » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:56 pm

I like the 'community' feel of the mailing lists, and they seem to be a better choice for groups of a smaller size -- like when you have a mailing list for a particular kind of bike. I prefer this list the way it is, for instance. When you have a broader group of folks (say like advrider.com, or wera.com) then the advantage of picking and choosing the threads you want to view becomes more important. JMO --John Kokola

Don Leamon
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Post by Don Leamon » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:08 pm

>Me, I think you're cuckoo. I'm a www-veteran of roughly the same time >frame as you (maybe a bit earlier; I started young), and you can have
my
>mailing lists and terminal based email clients when you pry them from
my
>cold, dead hands.
erik Didn't know that www-veterans were unable to remove the recipients address in a reply so they don't receive the same post twice. Just call me Cuckoo... oh that's right, you did.

Jud Jones
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Post by Jud Jones » Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:08 pm

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Don Leamon" wrote:
> OK, my bad, I had come across the www.klr650.net/forum/ but in haste I > failed to note that you had to register to even read the posts. Since it > (forum layout) is, well kinda unprofessional looking, I thought it was > not very active or even operational. > > That being said, what are the differences in knowledge/members between > this list and that forum? > > I personally haven't used a list since like '97, and I prefer the forum > format...
It's pretty active; not quite as busy as this list, but more so than most with about 2000 members. A lot of folks from this list are active there as well, including quite a few that I consider to be reliable sources of advice. I'm gonna say that the overall level of technical knowledge is slightly higher here, but maybe it just seems that way because the yahoo list isn't as pretty.

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