Re: Visit www.excelforums.com

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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 14:12:37 -0500

I would agree with Frank on this one. While many of us want business we do
refrain from blatant advertising here.

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Don Guillett
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"Jim Gordon MVP" <goldkey74@WarmerThanWarmMail.com> wrote in message
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> Unlike others here I don't consider this announcement spam at all.
>
> It is on topic, which is Excel, and the forums have specific Macintosh
> Excel content, so to me the Balazs' posting fits right in.
>
> Now I would like to offer a quick review of Excelforums.com.
>
> I took a few minutes to visit the site and discovered that it is a
> repackaging of the newsgroups by providing a web interface. I have no
> objection to this at all. In essence every newsreading program out there
> does the same thing. So if you like Entourage, Thunderbird, NewsWatcher
> or whatever this is just another alternative. The forums uses a web
> interface instead of a client application. To me that is a lot of wasted
> overhead, but some people only know Netscape or a web browser and if
> they stumble on the site and like it, who am I to criticize?
>
> I think the price/value equation is heavily stacked against
> Excelforums.com. Compared to the program I am using right now,
> Thunderbird (a free download from
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/), the forums are infintely
> more expensive. I prefer the way Thunderbird displays messages. I can
> see a tree-structure showing message threads, I can mark messages and
> future attention, and lots more. Thunderbird is a lot faster than a web
> browser.
>
> Nevertheless, I find that the Forums offer an attractive looking
> interface that might be less confusing to a new user, especially someone
> new to the newsgroups. To some people, the price might be acceptable,
> and I don't think it is a bad thing that they pay for a web interface
> formatting service they find useful. Maybe later on they will graduate
> to something more robust that's less expensive.
>
> I did find it interesting that the Forums offer Google search
> capabilities at the bottom of the page. I would offer this Google link
> as a point of comparison to the Forums
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=microsoft.public.mac.office>
>
> To conclude:  I think the Forums are attractive looking, but they are a
> pricey way to do something that you can do for free from Google,
> Mozilla, and other sources.
>
> I encourage anyone who has done some programming and wants to announce
> it here in the newsgroups to feel welcome to do so, with the
> understanding that it be on topic. To me, Excel Forums announcement
> passes the "is it spam" test - the announcement is not spam.
>
> -Jim
>
> -- 
> Jim Gordon
> Mac MVP
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>
> Balazs wrote:
> > Excelforums.com
> >
> > We are back up and running again after a few months down.  Most of our
> > posts have been lost, but we're on a dedicated domain now and we're
> > plugged into the microsoft.public.excel.* NewsGroups with a 90 second
> > turn-around.
> >
> > Come on by and check out our forums!
> >

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