RE: Suggestion to the LD mailing list. (UPDATED)

["Alejandro Martínez" <alexmartinez7@hotmail.com>]

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alejandro Martínez [mailto:alexmartinez7@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:46 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Suggestion to the LD mailing list

my suggestion is this: I think it
>will be a
>good idea to make the posting through a Bulletin Board type of page inside
>the Looperīs Delight web site


>From: "Cody Davis" <codyda@ecpi.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: RE: Suggestion to the LD mailing list
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:16:11 -0500
>
>I like your idea Alejandro and totally agree. Can this be done by the
>webmasters?


Thanks Cody, thatīs what I would like to know also, it seems that the idea 
didnīt get much interest on the list users or it wasnīt understood at all, 
I 
want to explain it again clearly, also I want to clarify and I thought I 
did 
it before that this isnīt a matter of using email filters (which I already 
did) īcause even having all the LD emails delivered to a specific folder 
we 
still sometimes receive too many emails on a daily basis and using words 
to 
block certain emails like the guy on this list who was planning to put a 
filter to the word "Repeater" is not a solution īcause maybe one of the 
replies to that topic may have something of interest.
I would like that people on this list would have some minutes to check out 
the Bulletin Boards that I mentioned before: Ampage: 
http://www.ampage.org/ 
or Vintage guitar online: http://www.vintage-guitar.com:8080/forums/ to 
see 
what Iīm talking about, I guess many of you have used a Bulletin Board 
service before but for those who havenīt please check those īcause I 
really 
think that if this list moves to a BB format it will be more benefical for 
both users and the LD site itself īcause the Lopperīs Delight web page 
will 
have more hits per day and thatīs good īcause more people would see the 
advertising banners that now Kim is starting to include which I think is a 
good idea to make the site autosufficient and that autosufficiency is 
something that Kim himself mentioned on the "LD sells out" email.
I know that if I donīt want to have my inbox fill of LD messages I just 
can 
unsubscribe myself and check the LD archives but what if I want to reply 
to 
some topic or post a new one?: I need to subscribe again (and later 
unsubscribe, and later subscribe again and...).
Wouldnīt be easier that we could actually post a reply or a new topic 
directly to the LD archives pages? (itīs OK if you need to be subscribed 
to 
do that!), I mean, the way the archives are organized in the "Thread" mode 
are almost the ideal way for a BB page, the ideal way would be that the 
page 
could be divided in two like the BB on AMPAGE so we can click on a topicīs 
name and on the right side of the screen we can read ALL the responses to 
that topic and also POST a reply directly on there too!, here are some 
more 
benefits:

* The hard drive space that the list uses now on the server will be 
reduced 
īcause we wouldnīt need to leave or quote the original message in every 
respose to that topic, actually if you now check the posts on the LD 
archives they are like the original emails: every response has a copy of 
the 
original message and in many cases a copy of some of the responses, in a 
BB 
format the original message will be ONLY on the top and below will be 
every 
response in cronological order, isnīt that easier?.
* You eliminate the need of unsubscribing when youīre out of your home for 
some days or not liking the list anymore, and no more "unsubscribe me or 
Iīll sue" type of emails with their corresponding and useless responses.
* You can have categories sorted like for example: Echoplex D.P., Jamman, 
Kyma, Repeater, Upcoming shows by area, etc., and actually this option is 
useful for the guy who wated to create a Rolandīs Handsonic mailing list 
too.
* You can post long topics without worrying to use too much bandwidth and 
filling otherīs inboxes and actually the posts would be benefited with 
contributions of other people which didnīt read the originalīs topic email 
in the first time īcause they were unsubscribed at that time or they 
thought 
it wasnīt interesting enough to read it originally.
* You can check the topics, POST a new one or REPLY to them even if youīre 
on vacation, on tour or in some place where you canīt have access to your 
regular email account but you still have access to the Internet and just 
by 
accesing the LD web page you can do all that, isnīt that more useful?.

Maybe the list has grown too much and itīs time to move to a bigger home, 
imagine if all the users on the list would make a post per day, thatīs a 
lot 
of emails in your inbox I think, why not use the already avalible space on 
the LD archives pages?, and as I told you before I donīt spend too much 
time 
on the Internet on a daily basis and just check my inbox once a day, I 
think 
some users on this list also do that too thatīs why I think it would be 
easier to check the posts, REPLY to them and POST new ones whenever you 
have 
the time on a BB.
I would like that Kim Flint who is the owner of this list and other users 
would comment something on this idea.
Thanks.
Alex.

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