Re: (A must read) Web-supported weight loss...

[Guest guest]

What a great article - and a great motivator for someone who has just joined

this group!

-Jenn

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 01/23/2000 12:40:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,

dstout5@... writes:

<< I told him that I was reading messages on the Tae Bo board. He asked me

what this board was about and I told him it was a support group. He

then said, " are you guys helping each other get OFF of Tae Bo! " >>

that is really funny!!!!

Barb

who wants to know if he was serious or joking????

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 01/23/2000 1:02:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,

diamonique@... writes:

<< I think that for people who don't have immediate access to email, message

boards are great. But if one can possibly get email access, an email list

is the way to go for more personal and immediate support.

And I love this list! :-) >>

the best part of this egroups list is it has immediate individual responses

posted on the group website unlike onelist that posts a digest every 25

emails or once a day so for folks who prefer message boards, not emails, it

offers the best of both worlds

Barb

who just wishes searching the posts was more efficient

AKA: POMBarb, Mad-Dame Yenta, Tae-Bo Barb

" It's hard to be a cheerleader when the kid won't be a player "

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[Guest guest]

Hi Sandy-You are so right, this is an email-list. I zoned out, because

I access all the messages at the website, but they are posted right

away, which is a huge difference between most message boards.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 01/23/2000 10:39:07 AM Pacific Standard Time,

Horsemom2@... writes:

<< I told him that I was reading messages on the Tae Bo board. He asked me

what this board was about and I told him it was a support group. He

then said, " are you guys helping each other get OFF of Tae Bo! " >>

that is really funny!!!!

Barb

who wants to know if he was serious or joking????

>>

That was great!!! That sounds like something my husband would say:)LOL

Amy

[Guest guest]

> > that is really funny!!!!

> > Barb

> who wants to know if he was serious or joking????

Hi Barb-what made it even funnier is that he was serious! LOL. I

guess the word "support" threw him for a loop.

[Guest guest]

At 09:39 AM 1/23/2000 -0800, Debbie Stout wrote:

>It looks like we are definitely on the right track with

>this message board. What makes this board so unique, is that we can freely

>discuss any subject, rather it be different exercises, diets, supplements,

>personal feelings, etc.

We certainly are on the right track, Debbie. Thanks for posting that article.

While I understand that when you mentioned " this message board " in your

paragraph above, you really meant " this email list " , I agree that message

boards *are* very helpful in supporting people with weight loss, they can't

hold a candle to email lists (which were also listed ion the article) for

the more personal and immediate communication.

With message boards you post your message and then wait awhile before

people go through and read it and respond. Then you go back a few hours

later and read and respond. There's a big time lag -- sometimes minutes,

sometimes hours. And if the message board is a moderated one, the time lag

could be in days.

Email lists, on the other hand, offer fairly immediate response. If I'm in

the middle of preparing a meal and have a question about an ingredient, I

can post my message to my Weight Watchers email list and get an answer back

in 2 or 3 minutes. This isn't possible on a message board.

I can be heading out the door to buy tapes, ask a question here about

peoples' reviews of the various tapes, and get answers before I leave on my

shopping trip.

I think that for people who don't have immediate access to email, message

boards are great. But if one can possibly get email access, an email list

is the way to go for more personal and immediate support.

And I love this list! :-)

-- Sandy

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