Google wont let me spruce up RFDT with imbedded HTML like IMG and
QUOTE because there is the USENET Newsreader legacy. The best I can
do is HTTP links. Ive been putzing around on Sanzui. You need an
Account. The Forum makes you pigeon hole your thread in six
categories. I didnt see any appropriate place for a question on Nano
tea technology. It seems more like a social network site based on
tea. Lots of bells and whistles with glitz and glamor. But its like
going to Las Vegas. Been in one casino been in them all ie video
poker is video poker etc. My wife got lost once in one and the
security guards had to go find her. You can get lost in Sanzui. My
biggest quarrel is the 'new' posts. Theyre are only good for 24
hours. So if there is a break in the activity the thread rolls off.
So if I reply today and nobody replies tomorrow the thread essentially
disappears. It wouldnt be too bad if thread activity was identified
by last post. Any date on the thread is when created. Im not a big
fan of a vendor telling me their tea is better than the another guy.
Duh. That does add to the noise in the form of 'new' threads.
Besides the artificial categories, vendor salespitches and threads
that are more than a day old it is a tea posters dream. Its enough to
make me break out my bad Chinese grammar.

Jim

PS One last picadillo. There is a search function in the lower right
by subject,content,author. No matter what I put in using Chinese
characters it essentially says 'not found'. I can backdoor the site
using Google which gives me subject,content but not author. Im
chasing more information on ËïÒå˳ Áù°² SunYiShun Luan. Im not finding
anymore than what I already know.

On Dec 15, 7:40 pm, niisonge > wrote:
> > I completely agree with Will's point that the trouble with all English
> > language tea venues on the Net is simply that there aren't enough
> > people writing for them. Every other issue is minor compared to this.
>
> Yes, that's the problem, not enough people, and every forum is getting
> somewhat diluted too, so many of them. People also seem to blog more
> to their own tea blogs than post on forums.
>
> Maybe in the future, we could have a specially designed tea site that
> incorporates blogging, tea forums, photo albums, and a profile page
> like Facebook - but only for tea people; and an IM feature; and other
> features.
>
> Like I said, Sanzui is quite good now, but they are using off the
> shelf software designed by a Chinese company to run the site. I like
> it. Very user friendly, and I already have 45 tea friends on my list.
> They're adding a chat feature soon too, which means I can chat with my
> buddies on there, instead of just sending a shout out. Well, that's on
> the Sanzui Cun page, which is separate from the regular forum page.
> The forum page is still pretty much as it was before.
>
> One difference with Sanzui though is that many tea professionals use
> the site. Tea shop owners, tea factories, everyone in the tea industry
> is represented on there. And they use it because it's also part of
> their job. Then there are also many tea enthusiasts too.
>
> It's too bad there's nothing on the English web like that - yet.