Steve, One of the precepts to common understanding is a centralized forum. Here is where it happens, whether you are an active participant or merely a lurker we are all reading from the same sheet of music so to speak. I've never visited chat nor do I intend to, this is the place to be for information whether it be a technical question, an observation or merely sharing a trade experience. In the end we all benefit from the knowledge.
Keep up the good work. John Drucker Fire Protection Subcode Official (AHJ) AFSA Member -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Muncy Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SprinklerCHAT There have been about 150 messages posted to the SprinklerCHAT group in the past two years....certainly not much activity. I've always felt that the reason it didn't get as much activity was that subscribers are probably the same group the subscribes to SprinklerFORUM, and they sometimes tend to post messages here that should have gone to SprinklerCHAT. That once concerned me, but given the nature of the discussions, I think the SprinklerFORUM does a good job in covering overall issues. Some issues specifically related to business practices and labor are more appropriately posted to SprinklerCHAT. As some of you will recall, we also started a bulletin board type forum as a test for a limited period, but it got no activity so we dropped that because it would likely have interfered with the other email lists. While we sure don't discourage any discussion or establishment of other discussion group, too many sources means less people participating in each one. We were very early in setting up the SprinklerFORUM and it has a tremendous audience. Today, anyone can set up a discussion group on MySpace, Yahoo, etc. -- but I think the success of the Forum is that it has an active group with a specific focus. If anyone has suggestions about how to increase activity on SprinklerCHAT, we are certainly open to new ideas! Steve A. Muncy, CAE - President American Fire Sprinkler Assn. Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:05 AM, George Church wrote: > Two concerns: > Dilution of the already minimally used CHAT Employees on Myspace > during work, tend to wander. > > Heck, there's been this entire national trade association that, until > some recent interaction the past couple years, has done very well for > like 100 years without me. BTW, since this is the time of year, I'd > appreciate if users of this FORUM would consider- if not already > members- either membership or consider it share ware and send a check > (hey, maybe > paypal) to > AFSA for whatever you think its been worth to you. The afsa is a > nonprofit trade association dedicated to, amongst other things, the > education of those involved in this industry, and industry promotion > and improvement. > It's a > good way to thank those who help the industry that puts food on your > table, and I doubt the AFSA would not deposit checks for $25 or 50 or > $100. _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
