Posted by mike field on September 09, 2011 at 17:06:46 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Rob Boden's Strategy posted by Adam Quinan on September 07, 2011 at 08:23:44:
I think Adam's is a very relevant comment.
As a former TARS member, I am one of those international TarBoard readers/contributors who found my TARS membership seemed to be doing not a lot more than subsidising UK regional chapter meetings. Although I'm sure this was not really the case, nevertheless the copies of 'Signals' that I received every so often did not seem to me to be worth the comparatively high membership fees. So after about three years I resigned.
I contributed to the TARS Forum in its early days (when non-mebers were encouraged to contribute despite their non-membership, I imagine in order to get the ball rolling,) but although I can still read threads there I can no longer contribute. So I don't visit that site any more.
On the other hand, I visit TarBoard every day because I know if something is mentioned there that I believe I can usefully add to, then I can in fact do so. (I might say that I would continue to visit the TARS Forum if I could still post there, too.)
To me it seems quite appropriate that TARS should run its own Forum for its own members, and that both its and TarBoard's respective policies about cross-posting are quite appropriate.