[KLUG Members] RE: great site to "get together" in

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>I would like to give a suggestion to KLUG members. .... It's a fairly
>new site...I would suggest that the KLUG members could post information
>there and check the different fields as opposed to the mass e-mail that
>is current. It would help with conserving some bandwidth... 
You're talking about a diffeent medium than what we're using at the moment, 
one with very different, perhaps more arduous bandwidth requirements than
e-mail, especially if you take the time to think this through.

>...and users would not be unindated with a lot of e-mail that
>needs deleting as it either doesn't pertain to information they need, or
>want....
Different case, something that may not be solved with a forum or bulletin
board system. Matching the audience with what people look at is done here
by providing multiple mailing lists and suggesting that threads move to 
those lists. That method provides the "audience scoping" we need, and we 
could indeed use more of it.

>...that KLUG member posting there would be almost in a domain of
>their own...
But...but.. posting on kalamazoolinux.org IS **OUR** domain already! :)

>Apparently Bern, the moderator there, has messaged me back stating that if
>the KLUG members would be interested he would set a KLUG forums just for them
It might indeed be a good experiment on a new medium, and I'm certainly not 
against it (if I were, and it were better, who'd care?).  What I want to be
sure of is that it's a good medium, perhaps an additional medium for us to 
carry on with.

I would also think that, if this is a good medium, we would want to do our 
own forum system. After all, we do, to a great extent, self-provide and 
self-administer our own platforms. Given that one of the purposes of this 
group is to provide a place for learning about this kind of software, we 
would want to adopt it if it were successful.

							Regards,
							---> RGB <---