LMG
GoMoG at
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/GoMoG/
Richard,
You have put your finger on an important point.
We are a community here, a group of people with a
common interest to communicate. Luck and circumstances
allow our Mail List to succeed where others fail.
We are a small group and that has works for us. We are
not 10,000 MG or Triumph owners, we are not even
30,000 Morganeers, we are 300 internet enabled Morgan
owners. The internet resources for us are few and easy
to centralize. This also keeps us "cohesive" where
others are not, at least for the moment.
There are four interactive communication conduits vying
to be our communication conduit. The first is this List
which has brought and keeps most of us together.
The second is Fred Kuzyk's interactive Morgan message
board at http://www.delphi.com/msccc/messages
The third is Fred Kuzyk's Morgan Chat Room at
http://www.delphi.com/msccc/chat;
The fourth is Fred Kuzyk's new Morgan Chat Room at
http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=.
4g3TS 2kkNzU
I had, in the past, created internet chat rooms for my
children. They take only a minute to set up replete
with technological bells and whistles. The kids had a
ball every night with a little community of pals. Two
weeks later they learnt how to open other chat rooms
themselves and within two weeks they had 10 more rooms
for different subjects, different cliques and different
friends. Two weeks more and nobody knew when or which
chat room to go to and they were all sending emails
trying to announce or coordinate a meeting rather than
communicating at one. It caused ill will and their fun
"community" collapsed and that was that.
We here may be small in number but we are a "fun and
supportive band" because of the cohesiveness this List
creates. We should try to protect that.
It is true that the communication capabilities of this
List could be supplemented in the future. I am sure
there are ways of doing this together that will give us
good fit and does not rock the community boat.
Lorne
1984 Plus 8 EFI
Original Message -----
From: <RCooperman@aol.com>
To: <morgans@autox.team.net>; <fkuzyk@cgocable.net>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:32 AM
Subject: Parallel Universe
Fred,
I have been quite pleased with the free ebb and flow of
chat, technical information and humor I get as e-mail
on the net via morgans@autox.team.net. The mail
exchange comes directly to me with little effort on my
part and there is little structure or formality in the
group.
The traffic volume is moderate, the technical data to
the point and an occasional bit of whimsy pops in to
lighten us up. We have grown into a very friendly and
supportive band. I really enjoy the technical data
flow and the banter. This format seems to work well
and it's global reach adds character.
In brief I am a very happy camper with the current
state of communication provided via morgans@autox.team.net>.
I have been passively following the thread of late as
to a "super North American" club to be formed based on
the inter-net. This evening I visited your web page
at
<http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=.4g3TS
2kkNzU> just to see what was there. I was troubled by
what I saw. It appears you are developing a parallel
universe where MOG traffic that would normally appear
here is being siphoned off and posted to your web
site. IMHO this can only dilute what we have here.
Am I alone in my thinking??
Richard Cooperman
'69 4/4
Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
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