SEP, for those people who don't remember Douglas Adams, stands for
"Somebody Else's Problem" -- aka *I* don't want to have to manage or
sysadmin the solution.
I need a group/forum for my Japanese class. These folks are *not*
computer literate, so complicated solutions are out.
My first thought was Yahoo Groups. Nice idea, except ...
Yahoo *US* can't handle Japanese email. It *completely* screws up the
encodings. Why? I don't know. Even more stupid is the fact that Yahoo
Japan handles US encodings *flawlessly*. Unfortunately, I can't expect
the class to figure out how to sign up on Yahoo Japan (I do it by
reading the source code which labels all the button actions in English).
Okay, so I thought about Facebook/MySpace, but I'm really put off by
them both. The amount of "Sign up for X! Give us your password for Y!"
is just too high. Effectively, it's like stepping through a minefield
of computer insecurity. Sure, I surf with Firefox/NoScript/AdBlock on
OS X so am unlikely to have a problem. However, most of these folks are
on Windows, and I really would like to *not* subject them to that.
Other suggestions? Does Google have something I could use?
Thanks,
-a
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