[Lowfer] Lowfer Forum

[Steve Dove]

Hi Warren,

Whilst I was not one of the complainers, the fear of 
diluting, dissipating and otherwise losing the 'critical 
mass' of Lowferdom in a precipitous half-vast ill-considered 
move is quite understandable.

Bear in mind we are back here on qth.net by default, in the 
full knowledge it isn't optimum, since our other host pulled 
the plug for whatever reasons.  Consistency has proven its 
virtue.  The only major thing missing really is the ability 
to post small graphics;  it has been behaving reasonably 
well of late and we are at least archived here.

As hateful as Yahoo has become (never mind the China 
debacle) with really intrusive sign-up procedures and the 
'Mission Impossible' of later disentanglement, most if us 
here are likely already ensnared there, and despite all that 
(if you can stand the commercials) they do have the 
reflector thing (with frills) down pat.  A likely option.

Another option is to follow human nature and only do 
something when we have to.  How broken is this?  We already 
shuffle images around directly, or on web-pages when need 
be.  Perhaps a dedicated FTP server somewhere?

Discussion?  (Added points for use of colour and graphics.)

         Cheers,

                 Steve

Warren said:

 >    Some time ago a subscriber to this list created a 
 >separate longwave forum, a bulletin board where one could 
 >register and post comments, files pictures etc all neatly 
 >categorized. I think this was a GREAT IDEA!!!! 
 >Unfortunately others took this to be competition with the 
 >e-mail list and convinced the owner of the forum to pull 
 >the plug! This was a great tragedy and a loss. There is no 
 >way for example to add attachments to the QTH reflector. 
As >far as I know there is no other service like it on the 
 >Internet for LW enthusiasts.

 >   I suggest that we rethink the position and perhaps 
 >someone will be kind enough to re-establish the forum.