RE: [DMCForum] Appeal for a move to a more MODERN FORMAT

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Konrad left my original mesage at the bottom of his.....

>From: "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Appeal for a move to a more MODERN FORMAT
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:37:22 -0500
>
>Konrad? Videobob?
>
>Greg
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Konrad Posch [mailto:icypalmtree@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:08 AM
>To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [DMCForum] Appeal for a move to a more MODERN FORMAT
>
>
>
>I agree with the suggestion of a PHBB forum (what does that stand for?) as
>they seem to me to be a much more organized type of discussion.  Then with
>the creation of a gossip or "deap matters" area, it would be possible to
>discuss these pressing matters of religion that people seek the council of
>similar individuals on.  (BTW, the taboo on religon or politics anywhere
>impedes the use of logic, if people feel stronly enough about either to 
>want
>to post about such, one can assume they are looking for feedback and not
>"Eww, thats an uncomfortable topic")
>
>Anyway, I am 17 yrs old and as a member, sadly enough, ot the MTV 
>generation
>( i prefer DotCom generation, however, as I dont watch MTV) I think that 
>any
>forum that wishes to be effiecient shoould organize itself as an individual
>website, and not an email list.  Before my joining of this forum, i had
>never thought of a widespread use of email as a way to discuss.  I think it
>is much more useful to have a forum with individual topics, and individual
>discussions.  Therefore, I humbly suggest the following site that I
>discovered as I crudely hunted for a "DeLorean forum" as i typed into
>google.
>
>www.deloreans.org
>
>The site appears to be well designed but lacks a broad enough member base 
>to
>allow for much useful discussion.  For a definiton of "useful discussion" I
>submit another forum to which i belong, mazda626.net where there is such a
>poliferation of discussion you can actually read any of the sub-forums and
>learn.  It is, as opposed to the random, disjointed, question and answer of
>this forum (no insult intended, but as a frame of reference), a well
>organized and almost "professional" setup.
>
>As an addition, the regional clubs could have a page an anyone who moved to
>a new area could find a regional club (i have searched for many of such
>regional clubs, but have found the serch difficult as there is not really a
>running trend in URL name (some use DMC, others delorean, others i dont
>know, but the possible combination of region names makes the search
>daunting)
>
>DISCLAIMER!!!!
>        I am not in anyway associated with this website (www.deloreans.org)
>other than being a member.  I do not recieve money or other recompence for
>"advertising," but i would like to see alittle consolidaton in the delorean
>community.  It is not a huge one, so the need to have all the little
>tid-bits of information in one place seems to be obvious to me.  I have the
>sincerest hope that many people will join this site or one like it (if one
>exists, please either email me privately or post the url so that i and
>others may enjoy the benefit) and start to use this more modern and
>user-friendly form of group discussion.
>
>Any insult taken from this message is not intended for desired.  I am 
>young,
>cannot afford a delorean, but wish to have a place where I can, on a whim,
>browse and enjoy the myriad of delorean-related (and unrelated :))
>discussion.
>
>
>Otherwise, my suggestion of how the forum should look is if it were made
>into a PHBB forum, these are the best and let you integrate html into your
>messages, also the use of video, audio and images.
>You can see one of these forums like mine at
>http://www.bttfstuff.com
>These also help keep the riff raff in control as it tracks IP addresses and
>who has
>posted what and when, it is a great system with a lot of control.
>It also lets you re-edit your message later if you need to.
>
>Another possibility for a great forum is a group on http://www.myspace.com
>These are really neat too.
>
>Just a few suggestions.
>- Videobob
>

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