[sdiy] message board

[Randaleem]

Colin,

Thank you for the info. Didn't know gmail no longer
required an invite. Change is good. New Gmail for
SDIY? Done.

But a yahoo group presence for SDIY would still be a
good thing IMO. As I said, no one HAS to change
anything of the way they deal with the group now.
(except the posting address.) There would just be
additional capability for those who wish to use it. 

Re: Yahoo. Most people don't want messages with
attachments anyways due to spam and virii. But having
a group website where files and pictures can be stored
and viewed is pretty useful IMO. Beats ascii art.
Admuncher takes care of any other Yahoo issues; and
the PGOffline program and service handles the
archiving and searching issues you mention. All work
together seamlessly.

Anyways, it's not for me to decide. Just pointing out
a viable and minimally upsetting alternative.

Randal 


--- Colin Hinz <asfi at eol.ca> wrote:

> 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



 
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