[tt] Unscubscribing because of message volume

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:14:50PM +0000, Russell Wallace wrote:

>    I'll second the thanks for running the list and frowns at the
>    complainers. A question...

Thanks! The complainers are somewhat correct, I had to rush the
move due to lack of time, so the information has been late and 
somewhat haphazard. 

I would have ordinarily tried to get the digest mode folks
ported over as well, but I no longer have the time for nightly
sessions. Again, tell me, and I'll set up to digest in nick of
time.
 
>    What are you unhappy about with Yahoo groups? I'm trying one at the
>    moment for a game I'm running and it seems to work well, but there
>    might be pitfalls I haven't encountered yet.

Many things. Yahoogroups acts as a spam conduit, yet it suspends people
for bounces (when they bounce the spam Yahoogroups sends them) with a 
ridiculously low threshold. It adds ads -- not just in the archives,
in each post message. It breaks digital signatures. It traps group
archives in a proprietary interface, which even yahoogroups2mbox can't
get out reliably (I have a complete archive, yet most of it is corrupt,
so I have to redo it all again, in increments <500 messages). The
interface sucks. Etc.

The only advantage of Yahoogroups is that signon to many groups is easy.

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