[Cheese] Any interest in a Cheesemaking BBS?

[Jack Schmidling]

Landon Morgan wrote:

> A bulletin board system is a format for discussion that allows the topics,
> pictures and conversations to be viewed as their own medium in a "forum
> setting"......

What is a forum setting?

>rather than as a series of unique, topical email communiques sent
> to subscribing participants.

Seems like what a forum is all about.  I still do not understand what it 
is you are after that isn't covered in this format.

  >It wouldn't serve to "spread the community
> thinner" but rather would serve to start a forum and community with a base
> of knowledgeable people- the people of this mailing list- that could
> eventually grow larger.

How could it not spread us thinner?  What you describe is exactly what 
we do here.

> Fact is, hamstringing the community to a mailing list isn't exactly
> conducive to growth.

How's that hamstringing work?  And quality of information is far more 
important than growth unless you are interested in selling advertising.

>Cheesemaking is a narrow enough field of interest that
> it's probably best to remain reasonably progressive as a community rather
> than lodged in old formats with wildly inferior functionality.

Psychobabble.

> I envision a BBS system where cheesemakers from all over the world can come
> together to post pictures and share knowledge with each other.

That's what we do here.

> As far as ads, maybe there would be, but I can assure you, this isn't a
> venture for profit and almost certainly wouldn't ever be lucrative.....

I am having a hard time coming up with another reason why someone would 
purchase a domain name such as talkcheese.com and then enter an existing 
list and suggest we all move to your totally modern and updated forum. 
Nor do I understand why anyone would move to be exposed to advertising.

When nothing makes sense,.... follow the money trail.

js

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