"Alan B. Pearce" wrote:
>
> >I recall that yahoo was thinking about removing the trailer for an
> >annual fee, but have not heard of it since. Now that would be
> >something worth contributing to!
>
> A Yahoo List I am on did this, IIRC it cost about US$100 per year.

So if every subscriber contributed $1, the list would have no adverts.
But what a PITA to organize/track.


> On the whole the Yahoo lists seem to work well, but do tend to get hit by
> the porn sellers of this world who subscribe to a whole heap of lists and
> try and send mails. The moderators need to set it up so that a new member

Yahoo limits new subscriptions to 5 per day. This has helped significantly.
And you can't auto create a yahoo account (unless you have some wickedly
good text image recognition software) to get around that limit.
They -finally- seem to have their act together WRT spam.

> needs to have their first message or two moderated before they can send
> without the moderator being involved to stop heaps of these getting through.

I plan on doing exactly that once (if) the bulk of you subscribe to
piclistMIT. I have left subs opens to make it easy to transition to
the new list. First spam changes the policy to closed, with a 1 week delay
to get approved. This has worked well on my other lists since by the end of a
week, the spammers account is nuked, and you can still read the archives
to see what posts you missed. If James et al want moderator/owner
privileges, then they can export/import addresses en mass.

> The other problem is that it will not be possible (AFAIK) to have message
> filtering like the MIT server does, so everyone will get everything,
> irrespective of a desire to not have things like OT posts, which will turn
> off a few members from joining it. I would welcome a correction on this.

You just have to turn filtering on in your mail client.
As long as everyone puts in OT:, EE:, etc. the user can filter out
the posts that don't interest them. IMO, a small price to pay.

A.B.P said
>Another problem with yahoo is the pictures section only allows people to
>view small thumbnails of pictures these days. The original poster of the
>picture can still see it full size, but noone else. To allow people to see
>the full sized picture it is better to put it in the files area.

True.
OTOH, you can pay Yahoo for a 'full' subscription, in which case you DO
get to view the photos in full size.
So how often has someone posted a photo here?? Not a problem AFAICT.

And if the consensus is that people don't mind receiving large binaries,
I can certainly enable attachments.

M.P said:
>I hate to say it, but Yahoo may be the best bet. I also wonder if our
>bandwidth use might also be on the high side for a Yahoo group?

One of the groups I moderate (QCUIAG) has 4000+ subs with
 2500+ posts a month with a LOT of images (100K+). Hasn't been a problem
so far.

Yahoo does impose daily quotas on downloads from the group. If a
particular section has reached it's quota (files for instance) you just have to
come back some hours later to get in.

Anyone posting warez will get banned,
and a formal complaint to yahoo which will get you banned yahoo wide.


Robert

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