Forgive another post on this thread which has itself gotten a little off topic.
I'll preface this by saying that I make heavy use of some forums for a lot of my other hobbies, and I even went so far as to create my own domain with a forum that I never really went out and advertised (http://www.kitaircraft.info/phpBB2/index.php if anyone is interested). The problem with web based forums for aircraft kits is a question of archives. Most people prune the databases on forums periodically (if only to save space), and if the website eventually ceases to operate then even if they weren't expiring posts then all that data is gone. With an e-mail based mailing list though, one can easily keep track of the posts. My email client auto sorts all building lists into appropriate MBOX formatted files and a Linux cron job then backs up those files once per week in the case of hard drive crashes. This level of archiving means that even if I don't have time to read the list for a few days, or if something is brought up before I start building (which I haven't started building), I can always go back and reference that material. A web forum wouldn't work well for this sort of thing IMHO. Michael Gaskins Kevin Jarvis wrote: >So why do we stick with an antiquated email/digest system when we can >have a full blown multi-subject, multi-faceted forum. We could spew all >of the BS that we want in the Cat Poop forum or go over to the tools >section and spew some there or God forbid we go to the Ima Building a KR >section and talk about any number of subjects like resin, landing gear, >electrical, the xxxx airfoil, real building a KR subjects...... get the >idea ? > >I received this from the admin of WingsForum.com at: > >http://www.wingsforum.com/index.php > >
