I agree 110% with the idea of a forum format. It would help to
maintain specific issues in a more ordinate form and easier to follow.

I am sorry, I am no internet geek to give some help, but it has been
my personal experience in other forums. You can always and easily
backtrack to the issue you want to review or follow.

My 2¢ and please, don't shoot the messenger :),

Alfonso

I don't know what email program you are using but in Thunderbird
you can make folders and drag and drop messages to them.
In effect you are making your own forum format.
If the messages is of no interest just delete it.

If you want to keep it file it under your own folder headings.
I find it very difficult to find information I am looking
for on forums as people decide where they want to place
questions based on their needs and not necessarily my needs.

I wind up placing my questions on the largest thread with the hopes
that more people will read it and my chances of getting good
answers is enhanced.

I may be biased but I like this system better.

Paul Lamar

I agree Paul. Some of the "better" forums "Sticky" important topics
near the top someplace. You have already done this with your
rotaryengine.net home page. So as you are developing a
component, we can follow along here on the email side.

Ed Carver


Paul, you are right in certain respects. I use Mail (Apple) and I can
perfectly make folder subcategories for the different issues.

One problem that I see, and maybe affecting others is, that I use my
eMail for a multitude of other issues unrelated to Rotary. Should I
start adding subfolders, it would probably take a humungous amount of
space, much more than what other issues have already taken, noticing
that many of the messages contain photos and graphs and that these are
often repeated in the responses.

A forum (if I am not wrong) could hold all that info. notwithstanding
its size, in a very accessible format and saving good amount of
personal disk space (I currently have more than 100MB occupied by
Rotary alone, and that taking into account that I don't save many of
the messages if these are of no interest for me, as this message would
be to others, or too technical).

Other problem is (might be just a personal nuisance) that the answers
are to be posted at the end of the message, forcing you to scroll all
the way down in order to read it. Not pleasant if you happen to be
reading the xxxnth answer.

Again, it was only a suggestion. Don't shoot me :) and keep the good
work. I have been following for years and will continue until one of
these marvelous engines takes me to the skies, and even after that.


Alfonso


I don't know anything about the Mac but holding the page down
key goes to the bottom instantly. Do Mac's have page down keys?

We did it chronologically 12 years ago so it was easy to follow a
thread historically. Those that fail to learn from history...etc,
etc,.

I hate to say this as I don't want to give the impression
that $100 is trivial but there are Windows USB drives out there
that hold 500,000  meg (500 gig) for about $100. 50 meg  is 0.01%
of that IMMIR. (If My Math Is Right)

I use the search engine in Thunderbird to look up subjects discussed
years ago. I don't want to change now.

Paul Lamar

As far as I can see, Mail program from Apple, doesn't have that
capacity. That's a pity.

I was just trying to make things more easy to manage. Seems that I
will be adding files to those I have since Sept. 2001.

And, yes, search engines are good but no better than point & click :)

Happy father's day, you all!


Alfonso





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