REFLECTOR: Was Brakes -> Now Forum

[Mark Magee]

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
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'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
>> 
>> .
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>> On May 11, 2012, at 4:26 PM, "Scott" <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> 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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