"Peter L. Peres" wrote:
>
> >>> I personally would stop reading the list if it went to Yahoo!
> >>
> >> Me too.  In a heartbeat.
> >
> > Where is this Yahoo thing come from anyway.  I haven't heard anyone
> > talking about moving the list to Yahoo, so why is this an issue?
>
> Someone proposed to move the list to yahoo groups. I and others were
> against it (and I still am). But I'd like to mention that the yahoo groups
> now feature delivery and posting by email too. The one group I'm
> subscribed to does this (posting and reading by email). If it wouldn't I
> wouldn't be on it. So it is possible to move a group to yahoo and keep it
> a mailing list as it was.

That option (email interaction only) has ALWAYS been available with
Yahoogroups. The main difference is that you issue commands by
using a particular address, rather than commands in the body of the
message. e.g. "listname-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"

I offered yahoo as quick and immediate option, particularly since the
list robot automatically takes care of bounces and bad addresses.
The version of Mailman that I also use is not as good.

I moderate a yahoo list with 4200+ members, 80+ posts a day, and I have
maybe one adminstrative issue a month to deal with. FAR less than
the hour a day the current list robot apparently takes.

I'm quite happy to see the list running at MIT on mailman, but the
initial message about 'administrator burn out' suggested that implied
a decision needed to be made quickly, and I offered an easy, good (IMO)
option. Yahoogroups is good enough for Motorola's official lists, so
why isn't it good enough for the Piclist?

Now shouldn't this thread be moved back to [OT]: or [Admin]: where
it rightfully belongs?

Robert

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