Yeah, but "...the eagle has landed." I'm back in SF. Most newer forums allow
the user to get email direct or read at site only. I personally like the way
this List works. I don't need to log on to my account just to check
messages. The spare Vanagon List is on Yahoo and has this option. I have no
trouble checking postings even in the backwaters of Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
It's just expensive to use a satellite connection. Believe me when I say
List postings can be more entertaining than going to shore excursions on
some of the places I've been to recently.

BenT

On 1/30/08, Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Aren't you supposed to be wallowing in a bilge somewhere?
>
> At any rate, before somebody gets too confused about what the crotch of a
> Vanagon has to do with the 21st century, suffice to say I had a brain fart
> and mis-edited my post.
>
> What I was going to say was that there is a pressure washing board that I
> infrequent that can be set up to email posts to the subscriber; I don't
> believe however that it is set up so that you can email posts in, or if
> that's even possible, but I it made me think it would be useful to have a
> bulletin-board style site set up to 'parallel' the list- if it could be
> done.
>
> That is to say, if you preferred the email style list, you could stay with
> that, or if you preferred the bulletin-board style you could go with that,
> if it could be set up so that posts to the board went out as emails and
> emails to the list were processed as posts to the board simultaneously.
> Hopefully that makes some sense.
>
> I have no idea, as I said, if it's possible, nor do I have any idea what
> the
> logistics would be- I'm just throwing the thought out there. I think the
> board format would be useful for those lurkers and digest-ers that don't
> really want to full-time the list or deal with a ton of emails, and it
> would
> also be useful for folks that were travelling or accessing from some other
> computer than their own.
>
> Cya,
> Robert