Dating messages, 3-5-2009

Hi all.
I think it would make it infinitely easier for the reader to understand what is posted on the DN America Forums if the date of the posting appears in the title.

When messages are simply added under an existing topic, it is difficult to understand what is timely. For example, if the topic heading reads "Canadians postponed" but when the reader opens the topic he finds results of the Canadians that were sailed a week earlier, certainly the news is not timely.

An improvement would to have a new topic saying "Canadians postponed until April 3, 2009". The next posting on March 25 would be a new topic heading "More info about Canadians, 3-25-2009" with the text saying Canadians will be sailed April 3rd, 2009.

Messages that say " 15 boats on Long Lake" are misleading.
What date? Two months ago? Last season?

Pretend you are the reader. Is the message clear to the reader?

If would likely also be a help if you would look back to locate any obsolete postings you had made and removed them from the forum. If you sold that sail a year ago, take it off the forum.

An example: On March 3, 2009, I received a phone call from a fellow in Canada who saw posted somewhere that I had an aluminum mast for sale. I asked him the date of the posting. It was in 2001. He had accessed the old DN bulletin board. It was a disappointment to him that the mast had been sold eight years ago.

Of course this was an extreme case.

Hope this will help.

DN 805