FJowners.com

Let's see if this takes off.  I'll work hard in my spare time to try and add the features we need and improve this board.  Many of us know each other personally - let's try and keep the rule of thumb being "if you wouldn't say it around a rally campfie, you probably shouldn't say it here". - Marsh

MR Marsh, you are the man, now we have options and thats most whats most important. Can we also add an area for pictures and for trip reports. Once again Thanks a ton,,,

Eric McClellan

Nice, Marsh, thanks.  Now even less of my life will be spent doing constructive things, but what the hell ... "it's all good!" (cfm)

Although a few of the ground rules will be a little tough to abide by: will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented.

Damn, that's a tall order.  And virtually impossible for Aussies.



I violated already. :-[

Absolutely unbeeeeeleavable  ;D.  You are the man Mr. White!!!!!

Quote from: Gazza on February 07, 2009, 11:52:06 AM
Nice, Marsh, thanks.  Now even less of my life will be spent doing constructive things, but what the hell ... "it's all good!" (cfm)

Although a few of the ground rules will be a little tough to abide by: will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented.

Damn, that's a tall order.  And virtually impossible for Aussies.



I violated already. :-[

Hilarious Gazza. Post a pic of the black beauty of yours as an avatar. We can't just have the best year FJ1200 in the avatars of the current 4 members. Also; THANK YOU MARSH WHITE! FJ Super Hero.
Tim

Thanks guys!  I don't actually use these types of forums much...so you guys probably know more about them than I.  Oh, and I didn't even read the terms and conditions yet....that is just generic boilerplate crap.

i love it.... thanks brother for being so "johnny on the spot"!


a "REAL forum!


KOokaloo!

Frank

thanks marsh for getting this done.  unfortunately i didn't get your batsignal to be #1 member until it was too late.  i guess i can accept #14.  ( :

Another great place for a great BIKE!!!
Way to go Marsh..

LA Mike

Marsh, Great job!  I already feel free-er than I've felt in months.  And thanks for the Guns section as well.  I know I can find something to add somewhere. 

Quote from: Marsh White on February 07, 2009, 12:34:05 PM
Thanks guys!  I don't actually use these types of forums much...so you guys probably know more about them than I.  Oh, and I didn't even read the terms and conditions yet....that is just generic boilerplate crap.

thanks Marsh and it seems that you picked it up plenty fast

Denis

Quote from: racerman_27410 on February 07, 2009, 02:18:27 PM
i love it.... thanks brother for being so "johnny on the spot"!


a "REAL forum!


KOokaloo!

Frank

Yeah Marsh, what Frank said!!!! G'day Frank ;)
Cheers,
Graham in OZ....

Great job Marsh.  ;D Waving from up here in da snowy north....still snowmobiling yaaabaaby......

Thanks Marsh!  other than that just checking in

Thanks Marsh! I love the ability to skim/read all the new posts in all the various forums.
Looks like Yahoo YAMAHAFJ is going down - just got this email from Gary Foreman:

I am going to restrict posting, and may just close this group. I do
not have time to moderate it. There is a lot of good info burried in
the archives, so I hesitate to delete it. Maybe I'll just leave it up
for people to search. There are other FJ groups, I urge you to get
together and move before this one is gone.

Thanks,
Gary
.......
Wonder if the old posts can be pulled and formatted some way?

Thanks again,
Bob M

Quote from: boyitgobob on February 08, 2009, 06:20:57 PM
Thanks Marsh! I love the ability to skim/read all the new posts in all the various forums.
Looks like Yahoo YAMAHAFJ is going down - just got this email from Gary Foreman:

I am going to restrict posting, and may just close this group. I do
not have time to moderate it. There is a lot of good info burried in
the archives, so I hesitate to delete it. Maybe I'll just leave it up
for people to search. There are other FJ groups, I urge you to get
together and move before this one is gone.

Thanks,
Gary
.......
Wonder if the old posts can be pulled and formatted some way?

Thanks again,
Bob M

Greg March still maintains the archives of the Yahoo and Netpath (now micapeak) lists at:

http://fj1200archives.com/

Thanks Randy, I remembered that 5 minutes after posting. Musta been a senior moment!

Quote from: boyitgobob on February 08, 2009, 08:11:14 PM
Thanks Randy, I remembered that 5 minutes after posting. Musta been a senior moment!

I figured you would...     ;D

But I thought maybe there were others who never knew about the site, or forgot where it was located.

Yeah, I tried to post there as well....looks like he already set it so that he has to MANUALLY review each post.  Sorry, but what bullshit!  This is the message I tried to post in response to the guy who wanted to know about other forums:

I sure hope this Yahoo board doesn't go away - but if it does, the most important thing is we all stay connected and keep in touch with each other.
I just built this site yesterday:
http://www.FJowners.com

Obviously it is quite new with only 40 members so far - however many of the most knowledge people have already joined.  I hope more of the regular posters continue to join as well.

Another alternative is the yuku FJ Owners Board:
http://fjownersboard.yuku.com/

I'm not sure how many of the regulars from here also post there.  It also doesn't have half of the features as the one I just put up...but it does seem to have it's own following.

Hope that helps!

Marsh White
http://www.FJRally.com
http://www.FJowners.com

Quote from: boyitgobob on February 08, 2009, 06:20:57 PM
Thanks Marsh! I love the ability to skim/read all the new posts in all the various forums.
Looks like Yahoo YAMAHAFJ is going down - just got this email from Gary Foreman:

I am going to restrict posting, and may just close this group. I do
not have time to moderate it. There is a lot of good info burried in
the archives, so I hesitate to delete it. Maybe I'll just leave it up
for people to search. There are other FJ groups, I urge you to get
together and move before this one is gone.

Thanks,
Gary
.......
Wonder if the old posts can be pulled and formatted some way?

Thanks again,
Bob M

Bob, It looks like the Yahoo group has already been shut down to any more post. I tried to post to the group about not shutting it down but I spose its a done deal. Hard to believe after ten years and thousands of post and all the rallies, a few who complained ended up destroying the group. Thanks again Marsh for bulding us a new clubhouse!!!!

Eric M

Eric, I don't think it was the complainers, I think Nid's post shut it down, old bike show was obviously too far off topic.   ;D
Anyway, Ned has the honor of getting the last word in.

Bob M

Thanks for being the "Man of the moment" Marsh and creating a site for friends to chat in freedom.

TeeCee

Thanks, Marsh!!! Your undying dedication to this group continues to amaze me.

I haven't yet posted on this board my appreciation to Marsh for showing us that there are alternatives to Yahoo's antiquated format...so Thank You Marsh! In spite of its inadequacies, I'm as dismayed as everyone else that the Yahoo board may close, so I appreciate Marsh's words saying that this new board is an alternative...and not necessarily a replacement...until we can again find our way.

Gary's action last night surprised me as much as, I'm sure, it surprised all of you. I don't know Gary, and hadn't ever had contact with him prior to last night, when I sent him a brief 3-sentence email asking that he rescind my 'moderator' privileges and return me to being simply a 'member'. He wrote back saying that he'd complied with my request, then said that he was going to resort to full moderation, approving/disapproving every post himself...and may, in fact, close the board. I can only conclude that he'd been carefully watching the group's discussion over the past two weeks (and heck, maybe even over the past three months) and had already drawn his own conclusions as to the group's problems. I've never seen a post from Gary, but his post of last night clarified, in my mind at least, his (as the Group's Owner) vision as to what the group's focus *should* be...what the primary topic of discussion should be and how members should conduct themselves. And frankly, that's no different than what I saw when I joined the group roughly four years ago. Everybody talked about bikes, we all occasionally took the piss out of one another, and we all had fun. Somehow, in my view, we've lost our way.

But I don't see any reason why we can't find our way back, and the path doesn't *have* to include closing the Yahoo board or even (and with full credit to your efforts on this alternative board, Marsh) creating another one. Just my opinion.

Chris M.
Burlington, MA

What's cool is that I can access this site from my blackberry. For some reason I can't logon to the yahoo group with it. Makes it more convenient when I'm on the road.

Quote from: FJ Flyer on February 09, 2009, 11:56:23 AM
What's cool is that I can access this site from my blackberry. For some reason I can't logon to the yahoo group with it. Makes it more convenient when I'm on the road.

Same here.  I can access this site from work (at least for now).

Yahoo mail and groups are blocked.

Randy T
Indy

Yay for Marsh!  Man of the hour!