I might suggest an alternative purpose for the forum(s).  This is sometihng
I have been thinking about for vanagon.com...

Set up a forum for vendor bashing/loving.  This way it would stay off the
list(s) but would give people a place to go for anecdotal infomation on the
various vendors.  My thinking was to break it down by category:

Engine Rebuilders
Parts suppliers
Engine Conversions
Accessories Suppliers

Etc.

What do you think?

Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy "Klaus"
Santa Barbara, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Rainer Woitok" <woitok@rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Syncro] Syncro Forum

> Steven and Syncronauts,
>
> On Fri, 2000-07-14 14:28:29 -0700, Steven X. Schwenk wrote:
>
> > I've added a bulletin board froum to www.syncro.org.  There are several
> > categories and i'll be adding more.  It should make the site more
> > interactive.
>
> While  I'm sure a  bulletin board will   make your site more interactive
> (and, maybe, even still more attractive), I'm not at all sure whether or
> not this  is the way to  go.  Apart from  the technical superiority of a
> mailing  list  over a   web  based bulletin board,   I  think  we should
> concentrate rather   than  split knowledge about  our   Syncros or about
> Vanagons in general.
>
> Thus I would  opt for intentionally  directing discussions to the Syncro
> list by advertizing it on as many  private home pages as possible rather
> than  splitting them off  of  it by  installing multiple bulletin boards
> (yours is just the first) on the various private home pages.
>
> Well, just my 0.02 Deutsch Marks ...
>
> Sincerely
>  Rainer
>
> '89 Caravelle GL Syncro 16"
>
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