Important Message from your Moderators

[Guest guest]

As you all know, we have been with Yahoo going into our fourth year - and we

have been very pleased with the features they offer us here. However, they do

go down now and then; and it has crossed our minds that should something major

happen with Yahoo and we would have absolutely no access to our Board, it would

have a tremendous affect on all our members. We are nearing one thousand (1000)

in membership, and to lose communication with this Support Group would be a

disaster.

Bobby has created another Board, which we are going to call our *backup* site.

Please note that we are *NOT* closing down the Yahoo site. Again, we are NOT

closing this board. The purpose of the backup site is to have a second site

available, and one that we are asking you to become familiar with - just in case

~~~~~~~~! The backup site is quite different than the Yahoo site. Just take a

look at it; register; take all the time you need, and play around with it.

Again, its quite different, but very interesting. Make a note of the site; make

it one of your favorites; bookmark it. It could come in mighty handy.

http://afibsupport.proboards23.com/

When Yahoo is yahooing, we are tough out of luck! If we have a backup site,

such as the one above, we at least have a way of communicating with each other

and the group - even if its only on a part-time basis. Again, the Yahoo site is

our primary website, and we are NOT closing it down. The new site is only a

secondary site. Please familiarize yourselves with this new site.....it's fun!

We'll keep a look out for your membership there - with the same warm welcome we

have here ~~~~~~~ come on over and give it a try!

This message will be posted periodically so that our WebOnly members will have

an opportunity to become aware of our backup plan. Should a WebOnly member be

online to see this particular message, you might want to consider changing your

preference to *Special Messages*. This would serve two purposes; (1) you would

preserve your WebOnly access, but (2) the Moderators would have a means of

communicating with you by way of Special Messages - this, of course, would only

be possible if Yahoo was up and running.

Hope to see you all on our backup board ~~~~~~~~

Ellen

[Guest guest]

I've been there and seen it. Eventhough I'm an individual message

user here and it looks like there's no email capability there, I

really like its features a lot better tha Yahoo. It'll be

interesting to see how others feel and whether this board or that one

stays as the long term primary. Great job.

[Guest guest]

This is a great piece of software for groups. Most of my other user

groups use this software (or a version of it) and it is much better

than a Yahoo site. It has far more features, and advertising is far

less annoying.

I like it!

Chuck

[Guest guest]

Like the site, but don't lose the e-mail read/post facility, which I use

almost exclusively.

V.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/19/2004 1:37:39 PM Pacific Standard Time,

vmpaf@... writes:

<< Like the site, but don't lose the e-mail read/post facility, which I use

almost exclusively.

>>

Vicki,

I agree completely. The e-mail facility really saves time.

It's great to hear from a former afibber who is doing so well. I am very

happy for you.

in sinus in Seattle