I enjoy the variety, I read about stuff from people that own vehicles that I
don't, and I can see how alot of problems and solutions apply to my
vehicles.
Ed Morgan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill George <primemover@2xtreme.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:44 PM
Subject: [MV] New MV website?
>Dear listmembers, I've been a member of this list for the past several
years
>now. This list has been great and one heck of an asset to our hobby, but it
>just doesn't seem to flow as well as it once did, and our list-master
Arthur
>seems to have disappeared? I've been thinking for a long time now that
>something needs to be done to end all of the flaming and general BS. I've
>been thinking of starting a new website with a POP Forum. For a good
example
>of an active POP Forum check www.diesel-central.com .
>This forum could be seperated into different sections, say WWII, Korea,
>Vietnam, etc, then have subsections under each main section such as
>Trailers, 1/2 ton & below, 1/2 ton and above, 1 1/2 ton and above, armor,
>aircraft, and radio/electronic equipment.
>There could also be a section on the discussion of guns and mounts, events
>and rallies, news(this is where all the virus warnings and posts such as
the
>demil bill would go), paint and restoration ideas, site info questions and
>suggestion, as well as a classified section. This would eliminate a whole
>lot of flames since you would read only what you want to read. There has
>often been talk of separating the list into M-series and WWII, this would
>essentially do that but you would have access to read the posts you want.
>This would also help put an end to viruses being transferred. Any posts
that
>do not belong in a certain section can simply be locked and moved to the
>proper section by moderators, or if any post go against the rules of the
>site moderators can simply delete them. If this idea becomes a reality I
>will be looking for some moderators. The site will be totally non profit so
>moderators would not be paid but do it out of love for the hobby. I know I
>didn't cover everything here, if any one has any suggestions for different
>sections to be added(like maybe some for foreign vehicles, I didn't list
any
>because I really know very little about non-US vehicles but I know there is
>a lot of interest in them), any questions or suggestions or just any
>comments or if there's even any interest in this please e-mail me. If
enough
>interest is shown I'll look into this a bit further. The site will be free
>to members, financed by small banner ads (the same size as the ones on
>www.diesel-central.com ) no pop ups. Thanks.
>Bill
>
>Hear The Diesel, See The Diesel, Smell The Diesel...Be One With The Diesel.
>
>
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