[DML] Re: Modern BBS Format for DML

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: Private messaging:

A particularly irritating quirk for those of us who read the List via
Yahoo is Yahoo's truncation of eMail addresses after the @ character.
Without a domain, it's impossible to correspond directly. Truncated
addresses are clickable, but replies are sent to the moderator, not
individuals in question.

That's why the @ character should be represented some other way in
posts seeking off List contact (for example:
brobertson(at)carolina.net) -- won't be truncated by Yahoo.

Bill Robertson
#5939
Guess the age... (hint: I may look 18 but am actually a little bit older)

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxx> wrote:
> If we moved over to a modern forum format,
> we could enjoy using profiles that will keep track of personal
information,
> there are also "reputation" meters that work like ebay's feedback
system.
> (this might not be good for me :>)
> A modern forum would allow to use private messaging, the ability to show
> photos and share media files, run polls on threads, watch particular
threads
> and so much more.....
> It needs to be done eventually.
> 
> The way I look at it is, there are only a few thousand active owners
out 
> there,
> and out of that only a few hundred who are active via the internet.
> There is no reason to exorcise anonymity here, we all know each other
> and all get to actually meet one another in person at events and we
should
> all treat each other as known friends - because we are.
> I think this disclosure might bring forth more respect for one
another on 
> the forum.
> Just a thought.
> 
> - Videobob
> PS: For those that don't know, "Videobob" is the actual name I go by
in real 
> life,
> and professionally. Only family and close friends know me by "Robert 
> Moseley",
> but they call me "Video" or "Bob" usually.
> I wanted to point that out so that you know I am not hiding behind a
nick 
> name.
> Check the IMDB for "Videobob".
> 







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