[cobalt-users] Cobalt Users Message Board (was: Cobalt user chatroom????)

[Wayne Sagar <wsagar@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey Rodolfo,

>The idea sounds great... however, I worry about how much time I'd actually 
>be able to have the window open and be checking posts. Have to think on 
>whether it'll actually work. But yes, interactive would be wonderful.

Likely it would work and very well... Especially with a searchable format
like the UBB system.. not really "chat" dunno if anyone has ever tried to
watch an actual chat room but that would be nutty.. a message board would
be very cool, stop cluttering up the mail box and has anyone thought about
the bandwidth we use up by receiving all these mails <g>

It would take someone with a box that does not and will not have a lot of
traffic on it.. and the investment for UBB (about $249. last time I looked) 

I don't know about anyone else, but not reading a message board post is a
lot easier for me than to not open and read an email.. scanning the board
for relevant subjects and then reading the one's that sound good... 

Another good thing about a message board system... you can have any number
of topics in separate sections.. Say,  DNS ISSUES - WEBALIZER QUESTIONS -
SECURITY - SERVER CONFIGURATION - ETC.. it really would make this a lot
easier on everyone... 

So.. that said.. would Cobalt pony up the bucks for such a system? Are any
of the more "well off" web hosts populating this board willing to give up
the server space/bandwidth? (I know some of you are already thinking of
this) Costs for whomever hosts it, outside of if Cobalt would do it, of
course, could be offset by running a discrete ad at the top of the board... 

The messages would be a lot less likely to wind up on google.. and though
this would thwart Dan in his searches.. I'm not at ALL comfortable with the
fact these messages are going onto the search engines.. I screwed up and
used my actual email account and my spam ratio has gone through the roof
since joining this list.

Wayne Sagar