HI Peter,

Thanks for the thoughts... I'm going to be addressing the group at large this weekend with what I hope will be a satisfactory compromise that should satisfy both camps.  What I don't want to do is move the LML into a forum category that forces people to have to go "someplace" on the web to participate in the LML.  While the email system is not perfect by any means, it is by far the most flexible, least time consuming, and simplest means of communicating among a large group with similar interests.  I'll cover all this over the weekend or early next week.  Thanks again for the input.

       <Marv>


"Peter Van Arsdale" <petervanarsdale@earthlink.net> wrote:
Marv,
  
It seems that we would like to have the broadly based proactive nature
of a mail list and the historical threads that come with a forum, each
one having beneficial componenets that the other lacks.
  
To broaden the discussion the follwoing is just a thought:
  

* Create a forum site that lists topics and creates a historical
thread of comments.
* When a member creats a comment in the forum, it would generate
an email to all list members of the comment.
* A link on the email would allow the email recipient to go to the
comment and participate in the discussion and also back up through the
history if so desired.
* Most likely, all topics would have to originate at the forum.

  
Peter Van Arsdale
Naples, FL
  
LIVPT wannabee