[Elecraft] New Elecraft Message Board?

[Fred (FL)]

I'm proposing it is way past about time, for Elecraft
Inc. to create and support an "Elecraft Message Board"
for all its many customers and fans.  IMHO -
this REFLECTOR thing - is about 10 years out of date,
and an antique.  

Take a look at the following link (if Elecraft's
REFLECTOR will let it thru) - and see how a 2007
Message Board & forum looks and feels.


           http://forums.bateau2.com/

Bateau Inc. is a company that sells boat plans, boat
kits, boat parts, and has a large customer base of
boat builders, and people who are repairing, building
and upgrading their boats.  Their message board is
their forum for all their customers, for all the
categories of things that one would get involved in,
in providing a "boat plans" and kits company to the
world.

I'm not sure how much people-time it would take to put
up such a message board for Elecraft's customers and
fans, but it would be a "K3" type of improvement. 
Boards like the one bateau uses - are a canned
commercial software board, and I'm quite sure reside
on the company's servers.  No big deal at all.

Elecraft might even be able to talk a customer into
providing the time for care, feeding and maintenance
of such a modern MESSAGE BOARD Forum.

I don't know about others - but the experience of
reading Elecraft REFLECTOR posts, where 1/2 of the
message is header/links/message trails, gets very old.
One wonders at times, if the message content on the
Elecraft RELFLECTOR is secondary to all the header
material that tags along each and every post.

I create, design and support several websites for
a few commerical orgs, and this kind of change for
the better - is just that.  It comes with the
internet territory.  The REFLECTOR thing - is
something from the past.

Any chance - Elecraft's "computer guy or girl"
could put one up for us?

73, de Fred, N3CSY




 
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