[Elecraft] New Elecraft Message Board?

[Arthur Gunn]

Fred

I follow several message boards also and they are more rewarding to
follow and and more efficient to use than the present Elecraft approach
to communications among users.

Since the messages are better organized into topics & sub topics the
long term topic searching is considerably better organized. In the long
run this should reduce the duplicated question traffic.

The following example is typical of well supported boards on the same
scale as Elecraft:

forum.freespire.org/

Thanks for your posting and I hope the idea is developed for the
betterment of Elecraft support.

Arthur



On Mon, 2007-04-06 at 04:15 -0700, Fred (FL) wrote:
> 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 this REFLECTOR thing - is about 10 years out of date,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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