>If you have some specific suggestions you'd like to see implemented in or considered for the Forum, please don't hesitate to offer them up here in reply to this thread.<
I think it is great just to see more message traffic here. If changing section titles will help, I'm all for it. The important thing is just to keep the discussions going.
Steve Meserve
>>I think it is great just to see more message traffic here. If changing section titles will help, I'm all for it. The important thing is just to keep the discussions going.<<
I tend to agree that it's not really a matter of tweaking the section headings just so, though a change here and there might help. We'll definitely go forward with the trivia again -- I'll try to get that set up for next week.
dw
David,
Keep up the trivia...it's fun. Sometime I might even participate. Well, that would be a real coming out event.
Even though I'll never have time to read all the books I have, I'd like to see more book reviews as well as comments on the contents of current CW magazines.
Finally, changing/tweaking the topic titles just for a fresh look.
That's my 2 cents worth.
Rosemary
Thanks Rosemary. That's helpful.
The Table of Contents for various periodicals would be nice to see, particularly for those of us who don't subscribe to them anymore. I usually run out and buy a copy if I hear others discussing something in particular, or if there's an article by someone like Steve.
Hello stranger
How the devil are you? Sitting at the office, accessing the forum on my Vodaphone broadband stick, 2G rather than the promotional 3G (which I do get at home, admittedly), so it is a bit slow. Accessing cwcav the same way, too. Ain't technology grand!
Good to see you back here, and you should visit more often. We're off to the Shenandoah Valley next March - how about attending another reunion?
Regards - Anne
>But it can be a tad intimidating for a newcomer or an enthusiast maybe embarking upon recreational CW studies who may not feel themselves well enough equipped knowledge-wise to make a contribution to a discussion.<
The greatest contribution any of us, novice or experienced, can make to a discussion is to ask questions. Unfortunately, too many people worry about "dumb" questions. As my grandfather used to say, the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.
All of us are students here, whether we came to our interest in the war, as Anne did, through Ted Turner's movie, or have been studying it longer than some of our group have been alive. There's no one here who knows everything there is to know about the war, or who has all the answers. The search for answers is what makes the topic interesting. Of course, I have to admit, the time we spend trying to show David, John and few other misguided souls the error of their ways and convince them that the real war was fought on the Eastern Seaboard makes for some amusing interludes.
Lorne
Sorry to hear the lurgy is still being troublesome. I apologise, as I should have remembered that it would make attending a reunion difficult, and I agree with you. It would be very frustrating to attend, but be so restricted.
Yeah, up to my eyes in it, as usual, up and down the country (or countries, I guess!).
I'm probably about 70% recovered, but I wouldn't have been able to stand a transatlantic trip this spring, or been able to walk over much rough ground, come to that. Getting old is a bummer<g> With the predicted nice weather tomorrow (must be that one day of Spring we get every year), I'm eyeing up the garden, but I know I'll be struggling if I try to do any serious digging.
HI Lorne:
Good to see you in the forum.
Regards, Pete
Lorne:
Theres no such thing as a one book civil war library<g>.
David
The number of votes cast thus far (9) seems to bear out the thoughts of Steve's original post; re the lack of active participation...!
My vote is for tinkering with the names of the threads. I think one on Roundtables or meetings would encourage people to post what they are doing locally. So, that's what I'd like to see added, or replacing one less trafficked.
Were we once limited to 20? There are 14 now?
AVSIG has 23, which suited their list of topics.
Terry
