By Tom Buckingham
Jim Betz and Ted Becker have been discussing some kind of online activity during the current “lock down”. To that end, Jim has created a Special Interest Discussion Group called PNWRRModelers. It can be found at:
https://groups.io/g/PNWRRModelers/
PNW Railroad Modelers is a discussion group for model railroaders in the Pacific Northwest
The “host”, Groups.io is a “replacement” for yahoo groups if you are familiar with that. If you were a member of a yahoo group you have probably already learned how to use groups.io and are active in some groups. To gain access you will need to click the “Join The Group” button and then make a post to it to introduce yourself to the other members. The first post will go to Jim and he will approve it (this discourages scoundrels) and you will be live from then on.
The only thing you have to do is to choose which type of notice for posts you will get from the group. Most will choose “Digest” mode which means that you will get one or at most two digests a day that will collect all the posts for that time period. You will get that in an email. You can read and forget, read and reply, or just ignore/delete.
According to Jim it’s really easy to use.
Tom
Quarantine giving me a chance to steal a few more hours working on the layout. After I sanitize the two by fours, of course. It’s been taking me a while: Tacoma yard in O scale is about thirty feet long with another ten or twelve for the throat. I hope to finish it while I’m still alive.