[AT] Opinion/ Facebook

[Stephen Offiler]

I am a member of many forums... an easy dozen, more likely closer to 20.
The number I visit routinely... zero.  If/when I join the ATIS forum, I
have no reason to expect my habits to change.  I won't visit proactively.

(Heck it just occurred to me that I might already be a member of the ATIS
forum, dating back to when Spencer first got it up and running.  Need to
check on that.)

But... if the purpose of the ATIS forum can be viewed as a photograph
repository, AND if people who post photos there also post a link to the
forum on the email list, making it one-click easy... THAT could be the
perfect solution.

SO


On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> As I mentioned before, my biggest concern with ATIS is diluting the
> information between different social media, forums and mailing lists.  As
> best I can tell, we would simply end up with one third of our knowledge
> existing on each.
>
> If I could find forum software that would integrate seamlessly with
> mailing lists, I would jump all over it. But I don't think Facebook is the
> answer.   There are just too many people who would refuse to go to
> Facebook. Unfortunately many of the same people also refuse to use the
> forum. Until then I think the mailing list continues to be the only answer;
> with the forum rounding out our abilities to provide pictures.
>
> I could allow pictures on the mailing list, but folks would have to accept
> messages that might be upwards of 1 MB in size. If I restrict the size to
> something smaller, folks would have to be experts in resizing before
> sending.  Not sure everyone is up to that nor I'm I comfortable with
> everyone's ISPs and mail accounts handling that.
>
> What do you folks think?
>
> Hey Dean:  I don't know about narrow fronts vs. wide fronts, but I am sure
> Facebook would roll over before a mailing list I am sure.  (-:
>
> Spencer
>
> > On Mar 8, 2015, at 12:51, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
> >
> > So............   Did we decide to start a Facebook Page.  Somebody give
> > me the reader's digest version of this...
> >
> > Cecil in OKla
> >
> >
> >> On 3/8/2015 8:43 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> >> Wow, this topic sure generated some traffic, almost like the old days!
> >> Maybe we could have a Facebook page devoted to whether narrow-front-end
> >> tractors are more likely to roll over than wide-fronts... :)
> >>
> >> Dean Vinson
> >> Saint Paris, Ohio
> >>
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