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> Gahalyn: I get the feeling that the forum would be dead if it weren't for Howard.

Now that sort of make you wonder what is killing it. Could it be that it is an overload of mindless ramblings about things that nobody is interested in?

I think I'll just keep my head in the sand and assume that in this day of hurry, hurry, forums aren't fast enough for most people. So they move over to the chat rooms.

Frankly, the chat rooms are too fast for me. Even when I was a whippersnapper, I preferred a slow pace. On a forum, you have time to key in a post, proof it, revise it, correct it and then send it. Try that on a chat room and you are four subjects behind in the conversation.

Forums also keep all of one subject together. You can read everything in a thread and then look around and see what else is interesting. In a chat room, you have to be there or you will miss out on the conversation. Does anybody ever go to the archives to catch up on chats?

Chat rooms are the cyber form of a conference call. Forums are the cyber form of letter writing. Or maybe a newsletter.

But it's not an either/or thing. There is no reason why you can't do both, and a lot of people do.

Lately, I have been posting a lot of stuff to my blog. There is little reason to believe that anybody reads it there, but that doesn't seem to bother me. Writing is what I do for fun. Before computers, I used to file this stuff in the bottom of a desk drawer and nobody read it there either.

That's enough mindless ramblings for today.
Howard