[Elecraft] New Elecraft Message Board?

[David P Schornak]

I like the current elecraft message board as I receive the emails into
outlook where I can read and respond I don't have to go to some website to
keep up to date so as for my vote elecraft should keep it the same it works
and it aint broke so don't fix it



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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Arthur Gunn
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:08 AM
To: Fred (FL)
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New Elecraft Message Board?


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 this REFLECTOR thing - is about 10 years out of date,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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