REFLECTOR: Was Brakes -> Now Forum

Sat May 12 09:31:44 CDT 2012

I often search for old Reflector emails by using the "Find" function in 
Outlook express. It works as well as searching through a forum's postings, 
IMHO. I save all the best Reflector emails in my Velocity sub-folder.

I often visit various forums when I'm looking for information, and when I 
was active in the stock market I spent a lot of time every day on a couple 
of forums, but I still prefer the Reflector. Maybe it is nostalgia after 11 
years, maybe it's just because I prefer the subject matter. I hope that if 
we do switch to a forum format that receiving emails as they are posted 
would still be an option.

Doug Holub
2009 Standard FG, 135 hrs
interior finished next week?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Magee" <edjonesbrady at gmail.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Was Brakes -> Now Forum

> Hi Patrick,
> Brett's site is great, but does not function as a forum should. The 
> Reflector is where the meat of the discussion takes place and the data 
> parsed and distributed. We would be defeating the purpose of data 
> dissemination by commenting on a thread on the Velocity XL site as the 
> mailing list would not see those comments.
> Folks it would be in everyone's interest, and frankly flight safety to 
> merge the functions of Brett's Velocity XL site and The Reflector into one 
> forum site. The Van's RV community has been a forum for years, how easy to 
> search years of old yet pertinent data over there.
> FLIGHT SAFETY!
> We're not a chat board here small talking social issues or a 
> dating/pick-up list. We're helping folks build-fly-maintain aircraft.
> Easy searches on topics, no matter how old the thread, should be top 
> priority to our community. The current mailing list format does not 
> facilitate this.
> Since it was brought up, I suppose I'll go ahead and move some folks 
> cheese here declare definitively there are very few advantages, if any, to 
> a mailing list vs a forum. Additionally, someone may be flying their Velo 
> without a community-declared mandatory mod because they couldn't easily 
> search the database to find the data. We could could even have a 'Safety 
> Mods' section of the Forum.
> Flight safety is suffering in our current method of data distribution.
>
> Mark B. Magee
> Sent from IPhone 4
>
> 'Texan by birth, Canardian by choice'
>
> On May 12, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Patrick Sieders <pjsieders at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> If you want forum style, checkout www.velocity-xl.com, where Brett sorts 
>> all the emails and puts them in sort of a forum style system.
>>
>> Easier to research I agree, but it's nice to get some emails about stuff 
>> we are all interested in.
>>
>> Patrick sieders
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Magee <edjonesbrady at gmail.com>
>> Sent: May 12, 2012 08:09
>> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
>> Subject: REFLECTOR: Was Brakes -> Now Forum
>>
>> Hi Kevin/All,
>>
>> A forum would be MUCH easier to find old threads later to review valuable 
>> info posted up IMHO. There is a -good- reason most all other interest 
>> groups on the web are in forum format. The only downside is the necessity 
>> of a relatively active administrator.
>> For instance: this Matco brake upgrade thread is very valuable to me 
>> personally (XL FG: orig Matcos). I can't really take action on this this 
>> weekend so all I can do is create a file folder for this thread on my 
>> end. OTW I have to either email search my folders or (please no) search a 
>> an archive. In a forum format it would -always- be there for everyone for 
>> future reference and easily found by a search.
>> I participate on multiple forums on the web for varied topics and I fear 
>> a lot of very valuable data is lost for those of us who subscribe here: 
>> searching a digested mailing list archive in my mind is akin to searching 
>> microfiche vs the ease of a forum format.
>> Kevin, are you a member of any forums? Frankly I can't understand anyone 
>> who is would prefer this to a format a forum.
>> I was on a VW mailing list that went to a forum 10 years ago...
>> No offense intended to the originators of this mailing list and those in 
>> their comfort zone here. It is very valuable, just very difficult to 
>> search for a topic covered in the past.
>> To repeat, there are valid reasons that nearly (virtually?) all interest 
>> groups on the web have abandoned mailing lists and are forum based.
>> We would all benefit greatly, flight safety would benefit by a forum 
>> format.
>>
>> My $.02
>>
>> Mark B. Magee
>> N34XL
>> Sent from IPhone 4
>>
>> Texan by birth, Canardian by choice.
>>
>> On May 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Kevin Baker <flykb at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I concur
>>> I like the current email format.
>>>
>>> Kevin Baker
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2012, at 4:26 PM, "Scott" <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would not be happy if the list moved to a forum.  Probably would 
>>>> rarely participate.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Android phone.
>>>>
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