I understand the proposed plan -- a nexus of outlinks, with no actual content, just links. Presumably, such a site could be kept thin and small, so as not to require the kind of monthly bandwidth payment that 4x4Wire has.

I find myself kinda siding with Rob, though, just from a historic perspective. In the early 90's back when Kevin Langston was still running the Isuzu-Owners maillist out of frontier.lonestar.org, there were few Isuzu resources. Since then, more have started. Some remain, some have perished... and continually, through this, there are some folks who are more loyal to one site than another... I don't think that will ever change.

Over the years, I have mellowed from my original "why do we need ANOTHER Isuzu 4x4 site" to a stance of more of a live-and-let-live opinion. I do think that further fragmentation of our community is a real risk from each new node that comes into existence, but if the community grows apace with the multiplication of the nodes, it can stay self-sustaining, without needing to cannibalize existing readerships to populate new nodes. Some nodes won't achieve critical mass and will die... other nodes will thrive and flourish... and I hope this loose network of nodes will intermingle. In fact, that's one of the missions of the 'Zu Zoo gatherings, since the beginning -- bringing geographically-separate and community-diverse Isuzoids together, regardless of where they came from, or who they know.

Smiley, I don't object to what you propose, and would probably even use it, but conceptually, I think it rests upon a finding a few reliable volunteers (oxymoron, sometimes!) to generate it and maintain it, and that can be tough. Most of the easily-motivated Isuzu folks are already engaged at 4x4Wire, the Planet, ITOG, etc and etc. Finding staff IMHO would be a challenge.

Primarily, tho, my doubts revolve around the nature of the internet, which is different for almost everyone that slaps up a webpage. These very differences are the strength -- and the weakness -- of the medium, I think, and links pages are virtually guaranteed to be incomplete or out-of-date the very next day after they are published. Applying structure to an ever-changing list is complicated, even before you start to consider that many sites change their linking structure with some regularity.

In my opinion, the task set forward is too large, and the results are too limited... I'll just continue to use Google to find what I need, or links from this forum.

Randii