> I thought the point of this forum was not to be moderated, yet now people are clamoring for moderation? Oh no! Heaven forbid! :-) Our intention is to keep the free flow of information going while giving everyone different options on how they view messages. Choices 1, 2 & 3 are already provided by Yahoo Groups (direct e-mails, daily digest version, or web-based reading) Choice 4 is the difficult one. This is going to be a moderated/cleaned-up digest version. Each digest is going to be an HTML document that hyperlinks by thread/category to the previous digest and also links forward to the next digest even before it is written -- all downloaded in e-mails to be archived and used off-line or online depending on each member's preferences. This way even years from now people will be able to follow a particular topic or thread without having to do Google searches, skip a lot of quoted material or waste time. Eventually, I want to also organize or grade/rate messages according to relevance to help readers decide what to read and what to skip, but this will depend on the success of earlier versions. For example, Martin's recent contribution about the electric DeLorean was for me very much worth reading (thanks Martin :-). But as demonstrated by the DML moderating team, this did not interest them. Dave Swingle's suggestion for everyone interested to continue this discussion on one of the many perpetual energy forums is just not practical for most of us. And due to personal reasons, he won't suggest directing anything to the DMCForum either. Our collective goal here is to provide a discussion forum that works like a live informal club meeting. Could you imagine how unsuccessful a DeLorean show would be if everything everyone had to say first had to be whispered into a moderator's ear and approved? And what if all topics were limited to the car, the club or the marque? It wouldn't take long for most people to move to another room where they could speak freely. Oh wait, this is already happening. For most of us, the price of having to weed through off-topic discussions is more than made up for by having useful conversations transpire over a couple of hours that would otherwise, if approved, would take several days to transpire provided that it didn't loose momentum. To spill the beans: One of our long term goals in this project is to develop a licensed car club website package for any marque to use. DMCForum (as the prototype) will provide the basic structure and other clubs can plug in data relevant to whatever car (or bike, boat, plane, etc) they are promoting. This is all being done as a non-profit/ hobby/ entertainment value venture developed by professionals, and that is why it is going to work. And I'm not doing any of the programming which is why it is going to happen sooner than later. :-) Walt ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Looking for a more powerful website? Try GeoCities for $8.95 per month. Register your domain name (http://your-name.com). More storage! No ads! http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info http://us.click.yahoo.com/aHOo4D/KJoEAA/MVfIAA/HliolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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