T&T: T&T as forum?

[John Baker]

Ron,
 
    You may have a point if there was money(greed) involved.  There is none. 
In fact, we are way in the red on that forum and do it simply to provide a
better format for those that are interested.  Please enlighten me on the
ethical issues?  Our ONLY motivation for hosting trawlerforum.com is to
provide a better format(I know that is at issue....but IMHO it is
better....waaaaaaaaaaaay better) to discuss boating.  I did and will concede
the bandwidth issue although it really isn't one.  As has been stated, WIFI
and aircard usually provides broadband speeds.  Unless you are on dial
up.....we have people on dial up and they are perfectly happy.  And as I have
recently discovered, we have an email digest on our forum.  But that really
isn't the issue.    
 
    Anyway, someone brought it up.  And I am here to say that it already
exists.  We have spent time and money and it is there for anyone to use for
FREE.  I will apologize right here and now if there are any ethical lines that
have been crossed.  I don't believe that to be the case.  Y'all take care.
 
Trawler on,
John
 



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--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Ron Rogers <rcrogers6 at kennett.net> wrote:

From: Ron Rogers <rcrogers6 at kennett.net>
Subject: Re: T&T: T&T as forum?
To: "Troy Leek" <troy994719 at hotmail.com>, flyjbaker at yahoo.com,
trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 8:52 PM

The fact of the matter is that it is often possible to receive email on an
inferior connection while trying to load a web site in a browser will fail.
I am referring to WiFi connections. When "tethering" was free, I
could get
email via my cell phone at a time when browsing was out of the question.

I just visited the forum website and feel that the categorization makes it a
crap shoot as to what I find in different categories. Actually we are
wasting bandwidth here as most people are satisfied. Further, is it ethical
to solicit members of one list to join another? I don't think that it is.

Ron Rogers