It continues to offer local information but more and more we find ourselves requiring new and faster knowledge that can best be found on the net. Fast and wide-ranging, it cannot be beat for variety and depth. This structure is often lacking in e-mail software either through lack of the functionality or more often through lack of use of that functionality by the user. I must admit to using Eudora for a long, long time before discovering that there was a Filter command. Simply put, if everyone is talking intelligently about the same topic then that ratio is high.
Confirmation is nice but repetition can be merely noise and once again the ratio goes down.
That is the question that has been discussed for quite some time now by members of the TPC and has been a topic at a number of executive meetings. Numerous ideas have come and gone. While much thanks goes to the man responsible for all the effort involved he will be the first to admit that not much response was met to that method. The current homepage contains a lot of info and is growing monthly with links to members' pages and links from there to a variety of other topics. I made one a long time ago, saw how easy it was and then decided I did not have enough to say to put it up for public consumption.