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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / April 2006new tinnitus website
Hi I've created a new website and forum for tinnitus suffers and supporters. I myself am not a sufferer, but have two close people in my life who have sufferer greatly (my brother and my best friend.), and have seen first hand how debilitating it can be. Please check out the site, http://www.tinnitus411.com join the forum http://tinnitus411.com/forum , share your story. Through sharing knowledge and experiences we can help each other eleviate symptoms and stress. I've added a Treatments category on the forum... Please let me know through the forum if you have a treatment I should add. I'd like to get an organized list going of treatments and have discussions on if that particular treatment has work or not. Also, if there is anything else you would like to see on the site, please let me know. Thanks and best wishes, Hope That's a commercial site with links to advertising. No reason to leave here for there, except to line your pocket. Susan > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Thanks and best wishes, > Hope HI Susan- I've decide to remove the advertising except for sponsored listing as you see here. The site is new and it will be a valuable resource for tinnitus sufferers. hope.motreuil@verizon.net wrote in part: >HI Susan- > >I've decide to remove the advertising except for sponsored listing as >you see here. The site is new and it will be a valuable resource for >tinnitus sufferers. There are no advertisements at all in alt-support-tinnitus.  SignatureJim Chinnis / Warrenton, Virginia, USA Want to discuss Meniere's? See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MenieresDG Hi Jim- I have to disagree with you on that... Look in the upper right hand corner. This is what I'm seeing now: Sponsored Links Free Ringtones Get All Your Favorite Songs For your Cell Phone Today www.blinko.com Fibromyalgia Cure Fibromyalgia cure developed for my grandmother. Sold Worldwide! www.jointpainremedy.com Are You Normal? 15 fun question to see how you compare to other Americans! www.chatterbean.com hope.motreuil@verizon.net wrote in part: >Hi Jim- > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >compare to other Americans! >www.chatterbean.com I have no idea what you are doing, but you aren't using a newsreader to access Usenet. Maybe you are on the web, using Google to see the partial database they keep of Usenet? SignatureJim Chinnis / Warrenton, Virginia, USA Want to discuss Meniere's? See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MenieresDG Many ppl prolly use Google Groups to get their alt.support.tinnitus. It offers niceties that newsreader progs dont have. In return, you lose a narrow strip on the right hand side to adverts. ==> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.tinnitus The newsgroup format has certain limitations in how it can provide data. Basically it's a giant text library of random topics and information loosely based upon a central subject. Yet, there is no table of contents, no index. I think Hope is trying to provide a means to better focus on subsets of issues within the Tinnitus subject. For instance, there have been hundreds of touted cures, remedies, treatments, and resources presented in this ng. The newsgroup format makes it is extremely difficult to keep track of them all much less their effectivness. This situation just serves to promote the continued sales of worthless products and services. Since people cant find information from consumers of these products and services, they just wind up having to try them. What a waste. The Forum Hope has provided, if used, would go a long way to change this situation. I am not opposed to the modest use of Adverts to support such a service. Possibly, there are those who use this newsgroup to promote their own 'T' services so would prefer to discourage the use of other T resources that may shed a light on the effectiveness of their services? I hope not. Knowledge is power. Jim "jga.socal" <jganders@gmail.com> wrote in part: >Many ppl prolly use Google Groups to get their alt.support.tinnitus. >It offers niceties that newsreader progs dont have. In return, you lose [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >not. Knowledge is power. >Jim I also think Hope is trying to provide a useful website on tinnitus. The USENET newsgroups were really meant as a place to have open exchanges on any topic imaginable, but the exchanges were not expected to have an index, be searchable, or even be preserved. I like USENET because of its unfettered nature and the power of the newsreaders to get the groups exactly as you want them (such as with killfiles). Google and other web-based USENET access interfaces I have played with or used in the past defeat both of those goals. So I am much in favor of both USENET groups and web-based tinnitus discussion groups and resources. There are already quite a few, but I don't know of any that are independent of a particular treatment provider and that are truly searchable and indexed. There is a very large, active, and independent tinnitus website at http://p080.ezboard.com/ftinnitussupport92262frm1 but the search feature is worthless and there is no index of any kind. There has been an attempt to list all treatments and peoples results from them in one thread pinned to the top of page one. I post there and, much less often, here. No one has ever really succeeded in selling their tinnitus product or service here. Some of the purveyors of magic potions have tried, only to disappear after a bashing. SignatureJim Chinnis / Warrenton, Virginia, USA Want to discuss Meniere's? See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MenieresDG That is a nice link, to ezboard. I was unaware of an active forum on T. Can you provide your other favorite links here Jim? Thanx. Jim "jga.socal" <jganders@gmail.com> wrote in part: >That is a nice link, to ezboard. I was unaware of an active forum on T. > Can you provide your other favorite links here Jim? Thanx. >Jim Sorry. Not really. There used to be several ex-ast people who ran tinnitus boards, but I think they have all closed, for different reasons. I think the largest board other than the very active and large ezboard one I cited before may be one on YahooGroups, but it may have faded by now. SignatureJim Chinnis / Warrenton, Virginia, USA Want to discuss Meniere's? See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MenieresDG Thats ok. There are over 400 active, registered internet domains out there that contain the word 'tinnitus'. It's a real zoo. Prolly 95% of the sites are Adverts & spam traps. I'm always looking for good T website links. He is looking at the website. Get with it, Jim. Elly. >hope.motreuil@verizon.net wrote in part: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >access Usenet. Maybe you are on the web, using Google to see the partial >database they keep of Usenet? Elly Byrne ---------- The Ultimate Supertip from Harvey Segal http://tinyurl.com/bg7h2 >hope.motreuil@verizon.net wrote in part: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >There are no advertisements at all in alt-support-tinnitus. But not everybody comes to a.s.t. Elly's Tinnitus Resources http://eebee.net/ I applaud your desire to help your brother and friend with their T. In addition, the creation of a forum with a treatments category is a great idea. It would be cool to better organize all the terrific bits of information of the type that fly thru this newsgroup. That will obviously have to be done outside of this newsgroup. However, I think you will have an uphill battle attracting people to your website because it exhibits a level of commercialism that will prolly turn many people off. You must first prove the sites usefulness. Jim HI Jim- Thanks for your comments. My thoughts exactly on better organized information. It is new and I'm working on it... it will as it always is an uphill battle in driving attracting traffic. I'm going to tone the "commercialism" down.
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