On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Steve Barr wrote: > I can't spell it correctly. :-) Which is part of my point. If you > use what you're thinking of, each visitor will either have to get a > hyperlink to the site or a physical item with the URL on it. Something we've never really had a problem with before. Were we starting the Phoenyx from scratch, we'd never name it that. (We wouldn't even use the name spelled right, because so many people can't spell it properly in the first place.) But since it was a dial-up BBS ages ago and you just had to know the phone number and not the name, it wasn't important and now we're stuck with it... can't imagine changing the name. > If it was, say, www.WichitaGamer.com you could have it on a sign, say > it to someone, etc. My test is you should be able to hear it once and > be able to later go to the web and type it in. I think it would be > cheaper in the long run to have one like that. I admit this is a bit > of a hobby horse of mine so I'll drop the topic. It's a perfectly valid point... I'm just not sure I want to shell out another $35 a year on top of what I already pay for every thing else. That would put me over $10 a month just for domain name registrations. My other concern is that the Wichita Gamer is really the reincarnation of part of the original Old Phoenyx Grill & Bar... its purpose was to serve *Wichita* but the Internet killed the BBS scene and we moved to the net to survive and gained an international audience... and hardly a person from Wichita subscribed to it. I'd like to keep the connection, but on the other hand, I'm not sure how many would even recognize it. I do occasionally run across someone who used to do BBSi that recognizes the name but doesn't recall what resources the BBS provided. So we may have just lost all the name recognition we once had... we haven't really had a dial-up crowd for a few years now, even when we still had dial-up capability. Most of our dial-up users had moved to using our Internet gateway mailing lists. I dunno. Thirty-five bucks doesn't sound like much, but it all adds up as this hobby nickle-and-dimes our hobby budget. I'm not sure if spending $35 on a domain name is going to save me $35 in advertising costs. It's something I'm still thinking about. -- Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net) GMAST List Owner * The Idea Factory: Helping GM's Create -- http://www.rpg.net/ C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
