Re: Official Eovia boards? 2004-04-20 - By ccoles_avengers
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Just my $.02...
Not that Yahoo doesn't have room for improvement, but one thing I do
have to agree with David is that it is fast (all things considered).
The problems I personally have with "forums" is the higher management
ratio when using them. First, you have to look through and choose
each forum you are interested in. Then you have to subscribe to each
one. Then, when you check back, you have to visit *each* forum and/or
topic (depending on how the site is structured) before you get to see
the latest post. I don't know about you guys, but that's an awful
amount of mouse clicking and work to see who responded to your post.
It feels like you have to set up some sort of a tracking system just
to keep things straight. Then, if that forum site doesn't have even a
mediocre search engine, you're sifting through pages upon pages,
looking for an older response.
The "pros" about the Yahoo Groups are that, if you use it like a
message board (like I do), you can view *all* of the current posts
from *all* of the topics AT-ONE-GLANCE, on one page (well usually one
page, unless traffic is really heavy). Then you can scan the subject
headings to see if you can either contribute to that topic or if you
can just put it aside for future reading, reference, etc.
So while the Yahoo Groups still has problems with spamming, ads, etc.,
as far as a "delivery" system goes, it is pretty flexible and fast to
sift through (especially with the option of either using the e-mail or
message board feature).
Cheers.
Claudia
"Selocic"
(a newbie)
-- In Carrara@(protected), David Bell <nordwind53@(protected)> wrote:
> To add to this, we did considerable experimentation with a forum in
> another similar group, and in the end came back to an email format,
the
> reason, when you needed help you got it much faster and the
> conversations moved along much more quickly.
>
> Yours,
> David
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Harvey White wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:37:38 -0000, you wrote:
> >
> >>> Why doesn't Eovia have it's own forum?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yep, this topic comes up pretty regularly. In fact at one time
if I
> >> remember correctly
> >> someone at Eovia actually asked how this community would feel about
> >> setting up an
> >> official forum at Eovia. The overwhelming response was "Yes! That
> >> would be a great
> >> idea." There was even a poll done (albeit an unscientific one)
that
> >> expressed this. But it
> >> seems that the wishes of a few oldtimers who are set in their ways
> >> have decided that the
> >> best way to get our Carrara news is through an archaic email system
> >> that invites spam or
> >> through a terrible web interface that is so cluttered with
> >> advertising that it actually
> >> discourages many people from contributing to regular discussions.
> >
> > If you think that the "old timers" have such a say, then you need to
> > listen to them complain about what features are in Carrara, and what
> > features are not.
> >
> > Eovia does what it wishes to do. Right now, there is no cost to Eovia
> > for this forum, they can participate as they wish, and it's a rather
> > large group.
> >
> > For Eovia to do a forum for itself, someone would have to moderate it,
> > someone would have to set it up, and someone would have to (probably)
> > pay for it, either bandwidth wise or time wise. There's 3dXtract and
> > Vizualds for forums, but the activity seems much less than on this
> > list. They are pretty much dedicated to Eovia products. 3dcommune is
> > another....
> >
> > How much Eovia participates in those lists is another matter.
> >
> > If you do not like the web interface, then get your posts sent through
> > the regular email, and do not use HTML. There's a surprisingly small
> > amount of advertising that comes that way, and all you give up is the
> > capability of searching the archives.... (and you can still use the
> > website for that).
> >
> > If you have no email client that you like, or use outlook express, you
> > might want to see if free agent (www.forteinc.com) would suit your
> > purposes. AFAIK, it will not have the vulnerability to some of the
> > worms that other programs have, and it is a rather nice news reader as
> > well. YMMV.
> >
> > Harvey
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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