Jane, I agree while heartedly. Karl Church Dinuba zone 9b On Nov 16, 2014 12:26 PM, "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote: > I agree with David Pilling that a forum would require too much volunteer > effort for our small group to provide, especially if, like the wiki, it > admitted posts only by paying PBS members. Many people do not realize that > a large number of those who post to this list are not paying members; this > is an option offered on the website. PBS currently has fewer than 400 > paying members, whose dues allow them to participate in the wiki and the BX. > > If you want to post your photos so people on the list can see them > readily, one option is to join PBS and use our wiki, one of the most > frequently visited bulb photo sites on the web. If you join now, you will > be paid up through 2015. > > I think it is a lot more trouble to participate in a forum, however well > it may be managed, than to delete uninteresting emails by glancing at the > subject lines in your mailbox and clicking the trash can. > > > Jane McGary > Membership Coordinator, PBS > > At 10:02 AM 11/16/2014, you wrote: > The thing worrying me about a forum is who will run it. > > I look at forums and there's always one person or two who have many >> thousand posts to their name. What makes the SRGC forum such a success - >> Maggi Young. >> >> The PBS has had difficulty getting anyone to edit the paper based >> newsletter. The PBS wiki is now stalled for lack of contributors. >> >> We have to do something new that will make you happy. >> >> I'd like to hear from the people who are going to put in 10 hours a week >> on the admin side of a forum - deleting spam, helping new users, putting >> names to all the photos people upload without names etc. >> - >> David Pilling >> http://www.davidpilling.com/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >