On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Shawn <sgro...@open2space.com> wrote: > My apologies to the list managers. I did not mean to belittle their efforts > in any way. I only meant to state that for me, personally, forums are not > the preferred tool. > > I am involved in a number of organizations where the main mantra is the > concept of a do-aucracy. If you think it should be done a particular way, > do it. For this list, this means that the list managers have DONE it, and > so they get to make the rules. I don't pretend to know all the > considerations that went into the choices that were made. > > But, I find it unacceptable that I have to give my contact information to > zoho.com so that I can use a forum on jquery.com. (as suggested by Andre in > a different posting on this thread). For some reason it is deemed "ok" for > our account info (and everything related to it) to be accessible by absolute > anyone. Whether it is a FaceBook account, a GMail account, etc. I have put > the brakes on for this trend and refuse to give my information away to third > party sites that have nothing to do with what I'm trying to do. No offense > intended to the zoho gang, as I do not know them or their > intentions/purposes. But I'll just say no. > > My thoughts.
My thoughts, also. FWIW, I'm pretty sure the decision to drop Google Groups is due to John Ressig's account being spoofed by spammers. It's happened to me, also. That, too, is unacceptable. I vote for Mailman, or some other well-established list software. I won't register with zoho, either.
