[mcp6453[_2_]]

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for my sunset
years, I may want to finally start learning how to build simple things for my
home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving, and racks. I've always had the
tools, but I've never had the space.

[Home Guy]

mcp6453 wrote:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking.

How is it that you have discovered this newsgroup (alt.home.repair) yet
you seem unable to similiarly discover woodworking groups on usenet?

Are you preparing to reply to your own post by spamvertising some
website?

[mcp6453[_2_]]

On 7/18/2013 8:32 AM, Home Guy wrote:
mcp6453 wrote:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking.

How is it that you have discovered this newsgroup (alt.home.repair) yet
you seem unable to similiarly discover woodworking groups on usenet?

Are you preparing to reply to your own post by spamvertising some
website?

No, of course not. I've been a participant in this group for quite a while. With
10 seconds of research, you would have seen that I'm not a spammer.

Have you looked at alt.woodworking?

By the way, the request was for a recommendation for a good online forum for
woodworking, not for a woodworking group on usenet. They're not the same thing.

[Doug Miller[_4_]]

mcp6453 wrote in
:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for my sunset
years, I may want to finally start learning how to build simple things for my
home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving, and racks. I've always had the
tools, but I've never had the space.

rec.woodworking

[Meanie[_4_]]

On 7/18/2013 8:48 AM, Doug Miller wrote:


rec.woodworking

Yes, that one.

[Chomper]

"mcp6453" wrote in message
...
Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for my
sunset
years, I may want to finally start learning how to build simple things
for my
home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving, and racks. I've always had
the
tools, but I've never had the space.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/wood/

[Paul Franklin[_2_]]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:03:16 -0400, mcp6453 wrote:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for my sunset
years, I may want to finally start learning how to build simple things for my
home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving, and racks. I've always had the
tools, but I've never had the space.

The Sawmill Creek forums are pretty good and quite active. They can
be confusing to navigate and God help you if you want to buy a
tee-shirt, but otherwise recommended.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/


Paul F.

[mcp6453[_2_]]

On 7/18/2013 8:15 PM, Paul Franklin wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:03:16 -0400, mcp6453 wrote:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for my sunset
years, I may want to finally start learning how to build simple things for my
home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving, and racks. I've always had the
tools, but I've never had the space.

The Sawmill Creek forums are pretty good and quite active. They can
be confusing to navigate and God help you if you want to buy a
tee-shirt, but otherwise recommended.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/

Well, I tried to sign up for that forum, but when I entered my real first and
last name, it said that my user name was already in use. Since the terms of
service say that I have to use my real name, I guess I have to change my name to
sign up. It doesn't give me an option to use a different user name.

[Paul Franklin[_2_]]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:31:07 -0400, mcp6453 wrote:

On 7/18/2013 8:15 PM, Paul Franklin wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:03:16 -0400, mcp6453 wrote:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for my sunset
years, I may want to finally start learning how to build simple things for my
home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving, and racks. I've always had the
tools, but I've never had the space.

The Sawmill Creek forums are pretty good and quite active. They can
be confusing to navigate and God help you if you want to buy a
tee-shirt, but otherwise recommended.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/

Well, I tried to sign up for that forum, but when I entered my real first and
last name, it said that my user name was already in use. Since the terms of
service say that I have to use my real name, I guess I have to change my name to
sign up. It doesn't give me an option to use a different user name.


What a pain. I guess it helps maintain decorum. A lot of users there
include their middle initial, probably for the same reason.

[TomR[_3_]]

mcp6453 wrote:
On 7/18/2013 8:15 PM, Paul Franklin wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:03:16 -0400, mcp6453
wrote:

Please recommend a good online forum for woodworking. As I head for
my sunset years, I may want to finally start learning how to build
simple things for my home, such as bookcases, built-in shelving,
and racks. I've always had the tools, but I've never had the space.

The Sawmill Creek forums are pretty good and quite active. They can
be confusing to navigate and God help you if you want to buy a
tee-shirt, but otherwise recommended.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/

Well, I tried to sign up for that forum, but when I entered my real
first and last name, it said that my user name was already in use.
Since the terms of service say that I have to use my real name, I
guess I have to change my name to sign up. It doesn't give me an
option to use a different user name.

Any public website or forum that requires my real name and real date of
birth to participate (as this one does) isn't going to get that information
from me.

Same regarding my "real" email address -- I always use a junk email address
for those types of signups.

There is a saying on the Internet that is something like -- for the curious,
provide the spurious.

To me, that is just common sense. Do they give YOU their real name and real
date of birth?