Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: New forum functionality

["Greg Ryan" <gregoryrryan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure Burt we will remove you, sorry you have been bothered, but we would 
rather hope you can stay or at least come back soon.  One of the most 
important reasons we have been working so hard on the class web site forum, 
(thanks for your excellent work Al and Warren)  and encouraging our members 
to USE IT for the last few months, is so that we do not have to fill the 
mailboxes of all our mail list respondents and potential new members, with 
rather banal posts that are better delivered via a well organized forum. We 
all know what posts these are and that they are seriously limiting the 
enrolment of the mailserver, which in itself is a very important tool for 
the class if we can maintain and grow  its enrolment. It may take a while 
for some to remember we do have a forum now which is appropriate for that 
kind of post. We do plan, however, to have a quarterly newsletter mailed 
from the server, so we hope you stay at least for that Burt. Lets hope that 
the addition of picture upload and other functionality to the forum (for 
members) obviates the need to stuff our emails into your mailbox and removes 
the last objection, for some, to using the class web forum.
Thanks for your email.

And as a general reminder to the class, I think it's clear what kind of 
resource we are trying to build here at swiftsolo.org and if you are 
intending to communicate with class members rather than the whole world, 
please use the forum rather than the mailserver. RSS feeds for WebPages and 
for forum topics or individual thread items have been provided so that you 
can monitor threads that interest you or updates of the site can be 
delivered automatically to your email box or browser on whatever schedule 
you choose, immediately if you are a junkie, in a standard flexible manner. 
Nuggets of important information posted in the forum will be added to the 
knowledgebase in a timely manner (useless, expired and or inappropriate 
information will be pruned by the moderators) and this will help to keep the 
information you provide and the official class communications available in a 
clear and easily accessible manner. Later the knowledgebase will be upgraded 
with a wiki engine to enhance its functionality and ease of use.

Thanks for your help making the class website and forum a better resource 
for members and prospective members.
Greg Ryan
Class President.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burt Peake" <peakeb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Al Pritchard'" <al.pritchard@xxxxxxxxxx>; "'Swiftsolo'" 
<swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: New forum functionality


> Guys, I have tried every way to Sunday to get removed from this 
> distribution
> list. I have sent the email that is supposed to return a verification 
> email.
> Never comes. I just cannot handle all of the emails that I receive from 
> the
> Class. Could someone note my email address and remove me? You have a great
> boat and someday I hope to build one, but until then, my mailbox is 
> filling
> up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Burt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Pritchard [mailto:al.pritchard@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:35 AM
> To: Swiftsolo
> Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: New forum functionality
>
> Some cool cat made the SwiftSolo Class Association web site better
> this weekend.... And now you have the ability to upload images to the
> forum. Although you will need to be a SwiftSolo Class Association
> member in good standing to do it.
>
>
>
>
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