Hi Everyone,

I have been watching this bulletin board for a while, but of course find it
difficult to view while I'm at work and on the road. I was curious if
anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics. I am aware of
pilotsharetheride.com, but that is really just for pilots to hook up with
other pilots for ride sharing. What I am looking for is a forum similar to
this one here. If no one is aware of one I may consider setting one up.
Would anyone be interested in that? I'm a computer engineer with lots of
experience, and would do it if I could drum up interest.

John

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John Huthmaker

I use groups.google.com to follow this newsgroup. Completely webbased,
pre-installed userbase.

Regards,

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL

John Huthmaker Wrote:
> I have been watching this bulletin board for a while, but of course find
> it
> difficult to view while I'm at work and on the road. I was curious if
> anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics.

I use http://www.flight.org/forums/


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Piston
Posted at www.flight.org

John,

> I was curious if
> anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics. I
>

www.avsig.com. Mother of all pilot bulletin boards.

What do you think is attractive about web forums? I hate them, because
you can't read them offline, nor can you decently track what you have
read and what not. Get a decent newsreader to follow this, and you'll
see what I mean.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

> www.avsig.com. Mother of all pilot bulletin boards.

Hmmm. You don't get out enough if you think AvSig is the -mother- of
all forums, and if they offer a Usenet gateway - I couldn't find it
(assuming the OP was after Usenet access).

> What do you think is attractive about web forums? I hate them, because
> you can't read them offline, nor can you decently track what you have
> read and what not. Get a decent newsreader to follow this, and you'll
> see what I mean.

Not true. If you want to read offline you simply print a thread or save
it. Threads you have not read appear in bold and those that you have are
in standard text. Threads with new posts always appear first. There are
a number of options how the threads are read by virtue of the database
orientated origins of the posts.

I used Outlook Express for ages but converted when at work behind a
firewall that blocked the news port.

I can log in and complete a number of functions (including my email)
with the same login as well!!! Logging into a web based forum allows
other users the option of viewing my profile, viewing ALL the threads
that I have posted to, viewing my pictures, viewing my articles - all
with the one sitewide username.

flight.org is very new and most of their stuff is only available if you
ask for it but there are countless Usenet gateways on the net. Search
Google :)


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Turbine
Posted at www.flight.org

Turbine,

> Hmmm. You don't get out enough if you think AvSig is the -mother- of
> all forums,

Ah, the joys of usenet. Instant insult from the clueless. Oh well...

I said "of all PILOT forums". This from Avsig: "The Aviation Special
Interest Group (AVSIG) is the world's oldest international computer forum
community. AVSIG was born in the early 1980s on CompuServe, a dial-up
computer information service which was a proprietary forerunner to the
internet and world-wide web. "

You know anything older? Let me know.

> and if they offer a Usenet gateway - I couldn't find it
> (assuming the OP was after Usenet access).

How did you get that idea? He asked for web-based forums. Avsig is.

> Not true. If you want to read offline you simply print a thread or save
> it.

Obviously, you don't use busy forums...


--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

www.pilotsofamerica.com



"John Huthmaker" > wrote in message
k.net...
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have been watching this bulletin board for a while, but of course find
> it difficult to view while I'm at work and on the road. I was curious if
> anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics. I am aware of
> pilotsharetheride.com, but that is really just for pilots to hook up with
> other pilots for ride sharing. What I am looking for is a forum similar
> to this one here. If no one is aware of one I may consider setting one
> up. Would anyone be interested in that? I'm a computer engineer with lots
> of experience, and would do it if I could drum up interest.
>
> John
>
> --
> John Huthmaker
>
>

Ben Hallert wrote:
> I use groups.google.com to follow this newsgroup. Completely
> webbased, pre-installed userbase.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben Hallert
> PP-ASEL

Yeah, but it doesn't cover binary groups. Aviation pictures show on
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation but Google doesn't carry any binary groups.

--

Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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snip
> What do you think is attractive about web forums? I hate them, because
> you can't read them offline, nor can you decently track what you have
> read and what not. Get a decent newsreader to follow this, and you'll
> see what I mean.
>
I also dislike web forums as I find them MUCH slower to read, because each
post (or group of posts) must be loaded separately and this is SLOW even on
my broadband connection. I find it easier to scan the threads on Usenet and
avoid threads (or posters) that I have no interest in reading. I can also
easily mark the threads I am interested in following.

Just my .02

On 2005-11-25, John Huthmaker > wrote:
> I was curious if
> anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics.

Sure, there are at least a hundred of them. Each with a little more
than one hundredth the traffic!

--
Ben Jackson
>
http://www.ben.com/

Avsig is only a shadow of what it was a few years ago. The major players are
long gone. I still go by there occasionally and there are VERY few
interesting posts any more. Avsig is mostly an expensive social club these
days.

"Offline", what is that??? I haven't been offline for 5 years!!

Karl
"curator" N185KG


"Thomas Borchert" > wrote in message
...
> John,
>
>> I was curious if
>> anyone uses a web based Bulletin board for Pilot topics. I
>>
>
> www.avsig.com. Mother of all pilot bulletin boards.
>
> What do you think is attractive about web forums? I hate them, because
> you can't read them offline, nor can you decently track what you have
> read and what not. Get a decent newsreader to follow this, and you'll
> see what I mean.
>
> --
> Thomas Borchert (EDDH)
>

Kgruber,

You should try this thing called "travelling".

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Thomas Borchert > wrote:
>Ah, the joys of usenet. Instant insult from the clueless. Oh well...
>
>I said "of all PILOT forums". This from Avsig: "The Aviation Special
>Interest Group (AVSIG) is the world's oldest international computer forum
>community. AVSIG was born in the early 1980s on CompuServe, a dial-up
>computer information service which was a proprietary forerunner to the
>internet and world-wide web. "
>
>You know anything older? Let me know.

The real Internet. The DARPA Internet. Long before CompuServe.

The other downside to a web-based forum -- can't always get
a PPP or SLIP connection. But I can ALWAYS get a dial-up for
plain text.

Blanche,

> The real Internet. The DARPA Internet. Long before CompuServe.
>

And there was a pilot forum there?

BTW, nothing "real" about it. It is and was the internet.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)