Disklavier

(sigh) once again I suggest that a GOOD threaded discussion system would
alleviate all these problems.  you could still get it all by email if you
want, you can read subjects you're interested in (properly threaded James)
and you could ignore topics you didn't want.  You could ignore people you
didn't like, admins could move topics to the right area when someone makes
an honest mistake.  There can be software download areas, areas for
discussions of different models or activities, cross-posting, general
discussion areas.  

 

Email-based groups have long since disappeared from every major subject area
for exactly these reasons.  email doesn't work right for these types of
discussions.  Y

 

There's more discussion here around protocol, name calling,
policing/bullying, and the strings of replies than the actual subject at
hand. 

 

This is why Yahoo Groups doesn't usually work for active communities... they
almost always migrate away.  check any auto-brand forum, A/V equipment
forum, pet forums, lifestyles, travel.  The Yahoo Groups forums die and are
replaced by good vBulletin forums (or something similar) for just about
everyone.  These exact issues come up... people trying to enforce their
conventions on others, people complaining about the spaminess, name calling
(that the whole group gets exposed to)... and once the (somewhat painful)
switchover is made, everyone likes the result much better.

 

I do speak from some experience having helped to migrate a similar
audio/video forum 3 years ago from Yahoo Groups over to a vBulletin system.
(www.kscapeowners.com)  All our members became MUCH happier afterwards,
though there was the same resistance initially... and we DO have members who
have set their setting to get ALL new posts by email, so for them it ends up
working exactly as the Yahoo Groups system did. 

 

--josh

 

 

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ray Reich
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:03 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com; 'Mark'
Subject: [disklavier] Subject - Mark

 

Kevin:

Mark is no doubt a very unhappy person that gets his kicks out of berating
others.it is sad.  I am on another listserve where we had a similar
personality and after about a year of dealing with his sarcasm we booted him
from the list.  I would suggest that Todd give Mark the boot.  

 

By the way, every male I have ever known that took joy in being nasty to
others was short.I believe psychologists call it the Napoleon Complex.
Mark, would you care to honestly share your height so I can test my
theory???

 

Ray Reich

 

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Kevin Goroway
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 8:08 PM
To: Mark
Cc: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM][disklavier] Re: Subject Mark Four

 

Is anyone else getting these insulting emails from Mark? It's not the first
one I've gotten.

Mark, do you send this same email to every single poster on the group? I
haven't started any threads recently...am I supposed to change everyone's
subjects when I respond in order to satisfy you? 

-Kevin

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark <MarkGMID@... <mailto:MarkGMID%40cableone.net> >
To: Kevin Goroway <kgoroway@... <mailto:kgoroway%40yahoo.com> >
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:17:32 PM
Subject: Subject Mark IV

Label your subject as Mark IV.

Are you a complete idiot or just a jerk?

It only take 7 key strokes. If you can play a piano, I would suspect 
that you can type out Mark IV.

Mark