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View Poll Results: I think the club should use:
Stay with Yahoo. It's worked for 12 years! 0 0%
Move to a forum. I'm tired of Yahoo's bungling ways! 19 100.00%
Voters: 19. This poll is closed

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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:29 PM
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Hi everyone!

From the time I first started running the group here the biggest complaint I received was "Why can't we have a signature that is always included in our posts?". The second most common complaint was "Why do we have to use Yahoo Groups from 1990?"

After over 20 complaints from members I put a little work (about a week) into an alternative and I'd like to get the club's input on what you prefer.

The options are:
1. Stay with Yahoo Groups, type your name/handle and city/state/location in each post you make to get it to show up in the group. Nothing changes.

2. Move to a forum and have a signature that you set up (picture or text), your location is always by your name/handle, and move to a daily or weekly email of new topics instead of getting each topic emailed to you directly.


To see the alternative visit http://6066gmcclub.com and click on "Go to the club forum". The other link of course directs to Jolly's site.

I'll tally the votes at the end of the week. Just email me directly or reply to the topic here (or on the forum) and let me know.

Have a great weekend everyone!

-Jeannie in OKC
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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:33 PM
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I'm all for a GMC V6 forum myself. That would make things easier.

Post your question/issue ect and only get notified to the replys of the post you made or subscribed too.

Way less emails than getting everybodys info over and over again.

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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:33 PM
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While I'm not an active member on the group I'd still like to throw in my vote for the VBullitin Forum approach.
I am/have been a member on several other yahoo groups and every time I use one ask myself "Why oh Why does anyone still use yahoo groups?" when a real forum approach is so much smoother and easy to use. In the end I soon forget about the yahoo groups and instead use forums to share and learn about my hobbies.

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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:34 PM
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this site as is w/yahoo sucks /lets change it and get something w/ pics

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I say change it, only reason Ididn't do it years ago is i just didn't know what needed to be done to do it.
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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:42 PM
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I'm for changing it. This seems so much more versatile!
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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:43 PM
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I have not been actively participating in this group for a while, mainly because my GMC project has stalled and I have it up for sale. I am a member of several other forums and think the format is lots better than the yahoo groups. I have no problem writing in my name and location on each post, but then I don't do it often. I would vote for the new forum hands down.

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I'm all for moving. There are two concerns that I have.
1. Spamming/moderations. Will we be able to keep a clean forum and not have it fill with advertising/spam.
2. Old Content. There is a ton of good data on the old club.. 12 years worth. Is there a way we can save/move this data over to the forum..

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Old January 21st, 2013, 06:58 PM
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It's already here under "Yahoo Groups Archive" forum located here:

http://6066gmcclub.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6
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Old January 21st, 2013, 07:09 PM
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Would all of the information on the groups page still remain accessible if we went over to the forum method? I know i have been able to answer some questions, just by searching the messages here.

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