Just to lend my support to David's stance re: keeping EVDL as an e-mail
distribution service, and staying away from the web forum format. EVDL
has been working for a long time this way, while forums have come and
gone. EVDL is not the only example of this in my experience.
I also appreciated David's recent post on e-mail options - it made for
good reading.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to
David for his work (and from some personal experience, I know it is
work) keeping the EVDL humming and civilized. As a result, the EVDL is
a phenomenal resource, drawing on the knowledge and talent of some truly
amazing people.
Darryl McMahon
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVDL problems for Yahoo, AT&T, AOL users
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On 1 May 2014 at 22:40, Dennis Miles wrote:
>Perhaps we should convert to the system "DYI Electric Car" uses and
>check in occassionally on the conversations instead of having the
>torrents of E-Mails we are accustomed to. Changing with the times, so
>to speak.
This is a discussion we've had countless times over the years. It's been a
while, so I suppose we're going to have to go over it again.;-)
Though I'm not a regular at DIY, as far as I can tell, they do the webforum
thing pretty well. What would an EVDL webforum have to offer over that?
What would prompt people to give some of their valuable time to us, when
there's already an ongoing and effective resource of the same type?
An EVDL webforum would probably be ad-free and noncommercial. However, my
perception is that while that matters to me and a few other people, most
folks just block the ads. Some block them with browser plugins; others
block them in their minds, or at least they think they do.
We'd certainly be more for privacy. We wouldn't track our users or sell
their preference data (I don't know for sure that DIY does this, but most ad-
supported sites do; just view the page source to see all the calls to third-
party URLs). Again, though, I think that matters to only a small number of
people.
IMO, the fact that the EVDL uses email is its main advantage. Maybe I'm not
typical, but I have logins on several webforums for my other interests. I
find one that's interesting, sign up, read it for a while, contribute here
and there - and then get busy and drift away. I have links for lots of them
in my browser's bookmarks toolbar, but I still don't visit most daily, or
even weekly.
I read EVDL mail every day, simply because it's there when I open my mail.
But would I visit it on a webforum daily? Doubtful. Would you? Really?
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
EVDL Administrator
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Darryl McMahon
Author, The Emperor's New Hydrogen Economy
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