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Tue, 26 January 2016 10:47

Justin Brady

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Okay at the risk of offending seemingly everyone....

Why on earth is there still a mailing list for this forum? It ruins the forum experience and I don't know how much longer I'll be able to take it!
I've been on forums for the last 10+ years and this is the only one that still uses a mailing list (or has in the last 10 years in my experience)

I realize that people are set in their ways, but honestly how hard is it to get on a forum instead of reading email?
The experience is so much better, there's a visual interface, the threads are consolidated, you can actually carry on a conversation with someone, etc.
Mailing lists are ancient tech, way past their useful lives, and quite frankly it ruins this forum for me.

I know I'm new and young and stupid etc, but at some point someone has to say something, someone (other than me) has to realize that this forum is going the way of the Dodo. As a very experienced forum user and member of the younger generation I will tell you flat out that it's because of the mailing list.

You can't find anything because there are 10908 threads with the same title: "RE: thread number 10908" "RE:RE: Thread 10908" etc
If I want to find a discussion on the Onan, I have to click through 500 1 message threads to find any useful information.

For instance:

I'm very interested in BobDunahugh's restoration project. Instead of clicking on BobDunahugh's restoration thread, i get a seemingly random update every day with a completely new post. So if I want to read about his restoration, I have to go to literally 100 threads to read it. I don't know about everyone else, but I get on here to waste a few minutes and learn a thing or two, I don't have 2 hours to track through trying to figure out what is going on.

Imagine if all of his stuff was in one thread, you could just scroll through and read all about what he's doing, you'd know where he currently stands in the project, what he's currently doing, what parts he needs, what parts hes selling, etc all by reading the last page or two rather than the last 100 topics.

Bob, I apologize for singling you out on this, no offense is meant in any way, it's just a good example of my point! My apologies for using you as the example.

Now that I have ranted and offended everyone, why don't I propose a solution?

In my (admittedly humble and most likely minority) opinion, there should be a thread, or a slideshow, or a PDF explaining the use of the forum to those who don't know how to use it. It is really very very simple and self explanatory. There should then be a mass email to all those on the mailing list that starting at such and such a date the mailing list will be discontinued in favor of a forum setup. Anyone who is not engaged enough to take the 10 minutes to learn to use the forum isn't participating enough to be effected anyway IMHO.

This is just my 2 cents, and is probably worth less than that. I just felt the need to get that out there to maybe give the forum a chance at a change and a chance at a future. As it stands in a couple of years no one will be on here and everyone will be on Facebook, and I can at least say that my hatred of Facebook is on par with most of yours!

Justin Brady http://www.thegmcrv.com/ 1976 Palm Beach 455

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		Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Justin Brady on Tue, 26 January 2016 10:47
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: jknezek on Tue, 26 January 2016 11:23
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: jhbridges on Tue, 26 January 2016 11:29
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Dennis S on Tue, 26 January 2016 11:35
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: k2gkk on Tue, 26 January 2016 11:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Olly Schmidt on Tue, 26 January 2016 11:32
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		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: jknezek on Tue, 26 January 2016 12:49
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		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Terry Taylor on Tue, 26 January 2016 12:58
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		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Rob on Tue, 26 January 2016 13:10
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: jhbridges on Tue, 26 January 2016 13:29
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Justin Brady on Tue, 26 January 2016 14:05
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		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Justin Brady on Tue, 26 January 2016 14:32
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Sammy Williams on Tue, 26 January 2016 14:42
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Matt Colie on Wed, 27 January 2016 07:44
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Rob on Tue, 26 January 2016 14:48
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		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: USAussie on Tue, 26 January 2016 14:29
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Terry Taylor on Tue, 26 January 2016 15:09
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: jhbridges on Tue, 26 January 2016 14:44
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Justin Brady on Tue, 26 January 2016 15:02
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: jhbridges on Tue, 26 January 2016 16:19
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Terry Taylor on Tue, 26 January 2016 16:36
		Re: [GMCnet] Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Glover, Brian K. on Tue, 26 January 2016 16:46
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		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Carl S. on Tue, 26 January 2016 19:54
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Bob de Kruyff on Tue, 26 January 2016 21:02
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		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: Bob de Kruyff on Wed, 27 January 2016 09:34
		Re: Mailing list ...why are we still using it? By: A Hamilto on Wed, 27 January 2016 22:38
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