[Cheese] Any interest in a Cheesemaking BBS?

[Landon Morgan]

"So is money but it works just fine."

There's a difference between something that "works" and something that
"works well"

"I think you need to be a bit more explicit.    What is a bulletin board
system?  What does it offer better than this?  The community is small
enough... what is gained by spreading it thinner?"

A bulletin board system is a format for discussion that allows the topics,
pictures and conversations to be viewed as their own medium in a "forum
setting" rather than as a series of unique, topical email communiques sent
to subscribing participants. It wouldn't serve to "spread the community
thinner" but rather would serve to start a forum and community with a base
of knowledgeable people- the people of this mailing list- that could
eventually grow larger.
Fact is, hamstringing the community to a mailing list isn't exactly
conducive to growth. Cheesemaking is a narrow enough field of interest that
it's probably best to remain reasonably progressive as a community rather
than lodged in old formats with wildly inferior functionality.

I envision a BBS system where cheesemakers from all over the world can come
together to post pictures and share knowledge with each other.

As far as ads, maybe there would be, but I can assure you, this isn't a
venture for profit and almost certainly wouldn't ever be lucrative. There
just aren't enough cheesemakers out there to hope for a payday as a result
of this, but there are enough out there to warrant a new, updated format for
discussion.

Anyway, that's my case for it. I would welcome any other opinions.


On Jan 3, 2008 6:43 PM, Jack Schmidling <arf at mc.net> wrote:

> Landon Morgan wrote:
> > Just wondering- the mailing list concept is kinda dated.
>
> So is money but it works just fine.
>
> > I have the domain name talkcheese.com and could easily put up a
> > bulletin board system. This would allow the information and data to be a
> bit
> > more accessible.
>
> I think you need to be a bit more explicit.    What is a bulletin board
> system?  What does it offer better than this?  The community is small
> enough... what is gained by spreading it thinner?
>
> I will also bet that there will be ads and commercials on your BBS?
>
> js
>
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