At 12:22 10/19/99 , Richard Golen wrote:
>The Eurovan list has gone from mail-list format to a web page format. You
>can access it at:

Heaven forbid that this list should ever do the same!  I find web boards
completely unusable for a number of reasons, most especially the enormous
amount of time it takes to use them, and ALL OF IT ONLINE!  To me web
boards are a quintessential example of attempting to make it easy for the
complete naif, at the expense (literally, in this case) of everybody
else.  I tried, honest I really tried to use the Westfalia web board, and
it's simply not worth the trouble having to load a page for every single
stinking message.  This list has had 8200 msgs since 1 July -- I shudder to
think what my Internet bills would be if I even attempted to deal with
that, not to mention having no time to eat or sleep.  Does this mean that
the EV people have little to say to each other?

{/Rant off}

Seriously (still) <g> -- can anyone explain why (apparently a lot of)
people find web boards attractive?  I've found one tiny advantage -- for
me, not the users -- in other people's web boards, which is that they are
searchable by web search engines; so if I'm trying to find some bit of
info/advice in the universe I sometimes get directed to a message on a web
board, and it's often interesting.  Of course having them searchable also
means that correspondents' addresses are available to spam
address-harvesting programs...
David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon.htm
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"