New Cessna Forum

There's a new membership-based discussion forum that's been active for about
a month now. It's at http://www.cessna-pilots.com

Membershp is free, although most of the users expect some type of fee in a
year or so. There are close to 500 members registered at this point.

You don't have to own a Cessna, but you'll probably get better mileage from
reading the posts if you do.

There are separate discussion forums for each type of Cessna (172, 182,
300-series, etc.), general maintenance, piloting, etc.

I have no principal stake in this website - I am just a plain 'ol member who
enjoys increasing my type-specific knowledge.

Carl

There's a new membership-based discussion forum

I don't understand the advantage of such a forum over Usenet (except
maybe OT postings, which I can skip).

Jose
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Jose wrote:
There's a new membership-based discussion forum

I don't understand the advantage of such a forum over Usenet (except
maybe OT postings, which I can skip).

Jose


Actually I don't quite understand why there are so many 'private'
discussion groups, for all kinds of products and applications, some
where you even have to pay. I can understand this where membership is
controlled due to sensitive or private information, but for the vast
majority of these groups anyone can join just by sending an email to
majordomo. May be they are afraid of a wider audience, or stage fright.
May be this is also why some specify 'no-archive' on their usenet
postings.

Actually I don't quite understand why there are so many 'private'
discussion groups...

Yanno... if Usenet didn't exist, and somebody just invented it, it would
be considered a great advance, like podcasting.

Jose
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On 14 Aug 2006 19:56:58 -0700, "Andrew Sarangan"
wrote in . com:

for the vast majority of these groups anyone can join just by sending an email to
majordomo.

There is are differences between groups that require its members to
join, and Usenet. The group moderator has the ability to oust what
s/he considers "disruptive" members at the expense of limited
exposure.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:17:55 GMT, Jose
wrote in :


Yanno... if Usenet didn't exist, and somebody just invented it, it would
be considered a great advance, like podcasting.

Due to Usenet's lack of a central controlling authority, the
government would probably attempt to prevent its implementation out of
fear.

In article . com,
"Andrew Sarangan" wrote:

Actually I don't quite understand why there are so many 'private'
discussion groups, for all kinds of products and applications, some
where you even have to pay. I can understand this where membership is
controlled due to sensitive or private information, but for the vast
majority of these groups anyone can join just by sending an email to
majordomo. May be they are afraid of a wider audience, or stage fright.
May be this is also why some specify 'no-archive' on their usenet
postings.

If it is moderated, you won't get the off-topic thread drift and flames.
This would seem to make it a more "civilized" forum.

There is are differences between groups that require its members to
join, and Usenet. The group moderator has the ability to oust what
s/he considers "disruptive" members at the expense of limited
exposure.

There are also moderated Usenet groups.

Jose
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Jose wrote:

There's a new membership-based discussion forum


I don't understand the advantage of such a forum over Usenet (except
maybe OT postings, which I can skip).

Then you're the only one. The Cessna Pilots Assoc maintains a web board
that easily gets 10 times the posts that this group gets. If there's
something you want to know about your Cessna that's the place to go.

further on that, having been a member of the cessna pilots assn. for a
few months, since i bought my 172-c, i've found there are real serious
benifits to paying the very cheap dues. they have a staff of tech
experts, a huge database and archive, well produced monthly glossy
magazine and on and on.
seems there have been personal conflicts and affronts (about which
i know nothing and really care less) as a result of which there was
formed the other group comprised of wonderfully nice, extremely
experienced experts to be sure. no resources but excellent people as
best i can tell.

just my opinion but it seems that if the second group is wildly
successful then the first group will not be able to afford to keep up
the tech resources which would be a huge loss for cessna owners
worldwide. i don't really see that happening as we have a less than 500
person free sign-up group on one hand and a fee paid membership of
many, many thousands on the other.

it was people on this group who suggested i check out the c.p.a. when i
bought and that was excellent advice. i would strongly advise any
cessna owner to pay and participate in the cessna pilots assn. it costs
me about an hour of avgas. as long as it's free i also enjoy checking
the threads at the other group sometimes.

dan
Newps wrote:
Jose wrote:

There's a new membership-based discussion forum


I don't understand the advantage of such a forum over Usenet (except
maybe OT postings, which I can skip).

Then you're the only one. The Cessna Pilots Assoc maintains a web board
that easily gets 10 times the posts that this group gets. If there's
something you want to know about your Cessna that's the place to go.