I have to agree with John here.  I like the idea of using one of the  
free, public list/group solutions, but I think Google's tool works  
better than Yahoo's.

Blake

On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:37 PM, John Drescher wrote:

  

This is where gmail helps. The box never fills up and I generally do
not delete non spam email. Threading is much better than yahoo.

    

With all that said, I think there already is an excellent solution
available that solved all these problems: Yahoo Groups. OK, Open- 
Source
purists probably don't like it because it's proprietary. Quite  
frankly,
though, I have to say: "so what?"

      

Yuck. I really hate yahoo groups. Although I admit the biggest problem
is they require it to tie to a yahoo account. The problem with that is
my yahoo account (its a paid one / have to cancel) gets 1000 spam
messages per day. And I am not exaggerating.
    

- It works both as a forum and as a mailing list, and is nicely
integrated between the two.
- Single sign on for many groups. VERY important.
- You can post by email or on the Web.
- Spam doesn't seem to be a major problem; Yahoo solved it (except  
for
their Grouply problem).
      

Maybe because my yahoo account is many years old. They have definitely
not solved spam for me.

    

- It preserves threading properly (unless somebody using email  
breaks it
- that's even more of a problem with mailing lists).
- Nearly everybody already has a Yahoo account anyway - and tied to  
an
email address.
- You can turn off email delivery, and still participate in the  
group.

      

John

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