[sdiy] message board

[Colin Hinz]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Randaleem wrote:

> I'm going to try to get used to this format; but it
> sure would be helpful to have the ability to read the
> posts and reply without using my email. Or having it
> clog up with hundreds of messages If I don't read and
> review every day.

Oh for pete's sake go and get yourself a separate Gmail
account just for sdiy, and then it won't clog anything
up for you. You don't even need to be invited to Gmail
anymore -- just go to the site and sign up.

Yahoogroups are great if you like the Yahoo way of doing
things -- great big bloated and obtrusive ads with web
beacons galore, crufty HTML-mail, and a pretty lame form
of archiving and searching. I'm on a several yahoogroups,
and while they're not the visual cesspool that web fora
are, they're still a bit of a pain.

But my biggest beef is this: Yahoogroups allow you (list
owner/moderator permitting) to send attachments with posts,
but said attachments aren't archived, and aren't even kept
around long enough for digest subscribers to see them.
What's the usefulness of that?!?

- Colin Hinz
    Toronto, Canada