[GSAS-board] A forum

[Paul Wallace <pwallace@u.washington.edu>]

Hi all:

It looks like some of the members would like a forum which seems to repeat 
every few years or so.  (Beware of the Ides of March!)

* The benefits that I see are pleasing the splitters (ie the post in lighting, 
not fish crowd), picture posting, and a greater presence in Google.

* The risk is that only a small subset would use the forum with any regularity.

As the risk of offending Eric (sorry), I would like to point out the AGA forum:
http://forum.aquatic-gardeners.org/

They have 1000 members internationally and what appears to be a healthy 
posting.  I believe there is a kick-back-to-email system that posts as:

"Someone on the Forum   
[AGA-Member]  RE: AGA 2007 Convention?"

arrives in my inbox from time to time.

At this moment in time it would appear that the post a picture to gsas function 
is up.  (Can send a PDF follow (low res with link to higher?)).  I would like 
the ability to search the gsas-members archives from the archive page as I 
often run queries of my local inbox before posting here (ie dating the last 
time forums were mentioned on gsas-member or -board) but this function is 
relatively unimportant.  What does the board (and friends) think?

-Paul

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