Digital BW, The Print

photobrusher wrote:
> This forums' design is so difficult for newcomers like me to
> negotiate and I wish the webmaster would do something about it.

Photobrusher, perhaps you have not recognised that this is not a 'web forum'. It
is a 'mailing list', a form that many people (including me) find works very well
indeed. Try searching Google for 'mailing list primer' and do some reading.

> For example why does it have to be a big rassling match to read a
> complete thread? You go to a subject and instead of follow ups right
> below the initial submission there's nothing to direct you to them.
> If you submit a reply, it simply vanishes!

If you receive message via email, and set up your email program correctly,
you'll get what you are asking for. I have set my email program to automatically
file all messages to this list into a folder, and to group the messages by
subject.

> Then when you finally get to the next thread in your face you get an
> animated advertisement and a question asking you if you want to go
> the next thread!

Try getting the messages by email.

>  Yeah, so I'm old and plenty cranky. I tell it like I see it. What I
> see here is a forum that frustrates as much as it informs. A forum
> should attract readers, not drive them away.

I'm one reader who has been been attracted to this list since it started. I'm
middle-aged and cranky, and I'm telling it like _I_ see it.

I suggest you learn how to use a mailing list, so you can (as I do) enjoy the
company of the well-informed and helpful people who post here.


Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au