[Rhodes22-list] Facebook

[The Rhodes 22 Email List]

There is a Rhodes 22 FB page, but no one seems to use it?

https://www.facebook.com/General-Boats-Rhodes-22-Sailboat-155705167787639/?fref=ts

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:36 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> If there was a group of people, younger or not, that wanted to use
> Facebook as a way to talk about Rhodes 22 sailboats, they could be doing it
> now.  There’s nothing stopping them, except for the fact that I don’t
> believe they exist.
>
> My guess is that if this community were ever forced to move to a new venue
> of any sort, we’d lose at least 50% of the membership in the transition.  I
> consider that to be a conservative estimate.
>
> Even if preserving the list meant moving to Facebook (which clearly it
> does not), there’s no reason that the archives couldn’t also be preserved.
>
> Recently, I’ve started walking my way through the archives from the very
> beginning, back in 2002.  One of the interesting things I found was that
> initially the term “Da List” did not refer to the Rhodes 22 email list.  It
> referred to a list of Rhodes 22 owners that was maintained by Rummy that he
> would print off and mail out on request.  I mean physically mail; you know,
> paper, envelopes, stamps.  It clearly goes back to the prehistoric days of
> SailNet.
>
> Peter Nyberg
> No Boat Yet
>
> > On Feb 9, 2016, at 6:14 PM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> >
> > Using Facebook would attract a younger group.  In preserving da list,
> this
> > may be more important than preserving the archives.
> >
> > Rick
> >
>
>
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