Anybody have any thoughts or opinions about having a separate Digitrax forum?
Please remember I'm new here and that my intentions are pure. I don't want to start a flame war if this has already been discussed.
Bruce,
I don't believe our hosts will want to add another category to the forum list. It's also yet another room that the mods would have to police.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Ditto everything Tom said plus other manufacturers might get the impression that MR is endorsing one manufacturer's product over another. MTH; Athearn; Broadway Limited; NCE; ad infinitum—might want their own forum, too.
For any specific or detailed information there's sometimes a Yahoo group or other specific web site you could search for information...
Take care, Ed
I'd say that the current structure is pretty good. This particular forum generally keeps a thread on the first page for several days, even if no one comments on it. To me, that's about right. And, it's very uncommon for a thread to have no comments.
Other sites have chosen a more "Balkanized" approach to sub-forums. I think that tends to break things up too much, and a lot of good information gets lost. Besides that, there is a lot of "general" knowledge passed around here, which tends to get lost when there are too many sub-forums.
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Bruce LA Anybody have any thoughts or opinions about having a separate Digitrax forum? Please remember I'm new here and that my intentions are pure. I don't want to start a flame war if this has already been discussed.
Bruce LA
The Digitrax Yahoo Group has over 10,000 members
So if you would have a specific Digitrax question - that would be the place to go!
BOB H - Clarion, PA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digitrax/
Looking back a few years, it almost took an act of Congress to get the present electrical and electronic forum (the name I would have liked to see) set up by the then-Administrator. I doubt that anyone is anxious to subdivide further.
There have also been suggestions to Balkanize the other three active forums. All have been rejected, mostly on the ground that many questions overlap the narrow definitions suggested.
If you want to see what happens to a forum with a too-narrow focus, just look at Where Are the MR Boxcars. Yup, it's still down there...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - analog DC, MZL system)
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I fully agree with the Yahoo Groups specific forums. There are specific groups for Digi-Trax, NCE, TCS, Loksound, QSI, etc.. Every one of the forums have a lot of members and are all quite active.
Mark.
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Many DCC yahoo groups exist and are active except, maybe the Bachmann DCC forum.
I joined the start of the Yahoo Groups in early 1998 when they were new and saw many DCC Groups form.
BUT, hackers and Spammers have infiltrated the groups over the past six to seven years. You get an message every so often with no subject, or Hey, look at this and it came from a registered Yahoo user, one you might even know.
If it happens to someone. they have to change their password. The hacker gains access to the email and all the user has to do is check their Sent folder and they will see that the message originated from their account, mysteriously.
Make sure you have a good password as some Bots use a program to probe the email in the messages for weak passwords. Hackers and Spammers know there are many, many, clueless PC users in forums.
Rich
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I am a member of most of the DCC Yahoo groups, and many other railroad ones. I only have a few set for mail - Digitrax, JMRI, Layout Construction, Layout Design, MRRElectronics, Loconet Hackers, and one for my very first computer, CosmacElf. I have them all set to digest mode, it's FAR easier that reasing a bunch of unrelated individual emails. I do not get spam from ANY of them. Once in a while one message in a given digest will be a spam link, that's it. If youa re being overwhelmed by spam, something else is wrong.
--Randy
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I belong to and/or watch just under two dozen Yahoo! groups, but I don't get any email from them. I simply read them online.
That makes it easy to skip the topics I'm not interested in, or the obvious spam.
It also means I don't get a zillion emails, and I don't have to wade through all the same stuff (topics not of interest and spam) in digest form.
Plus, it annoys me to no end when someone replies to a digest and doesn't trim. so by not getting any digests, I never have to worry about inadvertently committing that breach of netiquette.
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