Firstly I would estimate I have a mailing list of around 300, where about
100 are O/S, very few I feel from other schemes and a lot of "interested
thinkers" - er, I think!

I have to tell you that whilst I agree 100% with what you say I do have
some plans to develop the site, where some of the work in doing this will
start towards the end of the year. It really is a shame that a neutral
board with traffic does not exist, but, of course, from my side of the
fence whilst I welcome ALL traffic it is the sales side of the site I want
to work on, where that will, hopefully lead to more interest, and there I
have a cunning plan.........

It also has to be said that the "12 volt tv" side of the site does OK, so
the site will be around for some time to come I suspect.

May I post your message to the board please (removing the "Bravenet slur"
if I may, I had problems with them once with an advertiser trying to
install a dialer on my PC and when I wrote to them about it they could not
be more helpful (and annoyed!)? The O/S board is a Bravenet board, once in
the paid mode they seem OK.

Thanks for your interest in my site

Philip J Duerden
boatshare

I'm happy for you to post my mail, indeed I had first thought I do that but then thought that may be my comments could be read as offensive or so, and that was not the intention. And I shall even agree to the censoering, also the Bravenet unpaid site had annoyed me a great deal with a self installing programm thing where even if you clicked No or the close button it went on. However, this is a battle I need not fight, I just ignore there unpaid services (easy to do here on the continent).


Look forward to further development of your site, it is something I really enjoy having available. The 300 addresses I think is a good number, but there are probably 150 ordinary boat owners or newcomers. The whole scene intrigues me - as an operator competing with OS I would have looked to cooperate with you and at your terms from the start, since even just neutrality would help me over the dominance. (I'm splitminded here - I truly believe OS is - at least for us - the best, but am normally on the side of the underdog, now what?)


Anyway, best of Britis/Irish...
Chris

So does anyone have any comments

I can live with the banner ads. The ones I hate are those that appear in front of what you are trying to read. They somehow seem to ba able to circumvent popup blockers.

Andy B

Best of British / Irish ? I thought Chris was / is German? I don't care. I want somewhere to visit between boating trips. The kind of thread that appears on Ownerships message board could just as easily appear here and enjoy a wider readership. Very few Ownerships threads are Ownerships specific. I don't see it happening though unless the Ownerships board closes down.