Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some questions and answers that we find members and visitors are regularly asking - so we've collected them together here - you can search by category on the right, or just page through. If you have any problems, please contact the webmaster.
There are several reasons why we chose to maintain a subscription based email list, rather than a private web forum.
- Cost - The website is not free to run, and any increases in bandwidth usage result in increasing costs for the club. The overhead of a forum would considerably increase these costs, which we'd have to pass on to members
- Convenience - As a "push" email list, members reading the forums don't have to repeatedly check back with the site to see if there's a new message - new messages just appear in your mailbox
- Moderation - To keep a forum under control, we'd need a full time moderator, the club is run by volunteers, most of whom also have full-time jobs.
- Privacy - The mailing list membership is checked against the list of club members, and as the messages are pushed to designated email addresses, we know who is getting the messages.
- Communication - If we send a message containing important information (for example, new trip deadlines) we know with the mailing list that everyone on it has recieved it. A forum doesn't give us this confidence.
- Maintenance - As with any application, updates and patches are essential. It is already a major part of the webmasters job to update the software packages used to power the website, adding another system, with the necessary hacks to run it the way we like would be a sizeable increase in workload for our volunteers
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