Digital BW, The Print

This forum works pretty well for me . . . . mainly just because the 
Mail software in OS X highlights all past emails relating to the one 
you're reading . . . But I agree; it would be nice to have a more 
functional forum/organization. There are many different Yahoo forums 
relating to what we talk about in this forum (Piezography3000, 
EpsonWideFormat, etc.) and I feel that if we took this forum out of the 
Yahoo realm, people would just drift to those forums unless the new 
forum was somehow hot-linked to this one or well announced and had good 
email support. This is a very energetic group of new users and 
professionals. That is what its strength is; we need to foster that. 
I'm sure google will come out with good forum support with unlimited 
track-backs and module support in a year or so. I'm hearing they're 
also thinking about creating a web-based OS. We'll see . . .

As the technology grows and we become ever more involved with digital 
technique, this group may become a full-fledged organization. Till 
then, lets just keep working here until a really good alternative comes 
along that's free. :-)

take care all, Walker

On Mar 25, 2005, at 03:14 PM, Stephen Veillette wrote:

>
>  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
> <paul.roark@v...>
>  wrote:
>  > What costs are involved in what you guys seem to see as the 
> solution?
>  >
>  > For the past archives, if the major contributors submit their 
> archives, is
>  > there a problem?� Could those be sorted and searched?
>  >
>  > Paul
>  > www.PaulRoark.com
>
>  The costs involved with that I suggested would be for the domain name 
> and web hosting.�
>  Domain names can be purchased for less than $15 a year, and web 
> hosting can be
>  purchased for less than $15 a month.
>
>  Though I suggested it (it was really just a top-of-the-brain idea), I 
> do have significant
>  concerns with going this route: it would rely upon only one or two 
> individuals for keeping
>  the forum in existence, which would pose too much of a risk (IMO) of 
> something
>  happening that could shut the forum down (e.g. the "owner" doesn't 
> pay the bills and
>  service gets cut off, or the "owner" dies or otherwise is unable to 
> continue to manage the
>  domain name and web hosting service).
>
>  I think there are two better alternatives:
>
>  1) find a company that is willing to host the forum on their servers.
>
>  2) find another service, similar to Yahoo!, that hosts free forums 
> and move there.
>
>  I personally like option 2, since it avoids having the forum tied to 
> an individual and avoids
>  potential freedom of speech issues with having a company host it.� 
> How long would
>  company XYZ tolerate us talking bad about a product they make or 
> provide glowing
>  reviews of their competitor's products?� Obviously, this is only an 
> issue if company XYZ is
>  realted to digital B&W printing, and I see little reason for any 
> other types of companies
>  wanting to host a forum not related to their business (I could be 
> wrong).
>
>  Also, how would we manage the money issue?� Free forums avoid that 
> altogether, but we
>  would most likely have to put up with advertising.
>
>  And just to get it out of the way, the university I work at has 
> policies against hosting web
>  sites for outside interests.� We tried in the past, but the 
> experience wasn't positive, so we
>  put an end to it.
>
>  -Steve
>
>
>
>
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