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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 1:33 PM Subject: Re: KR>problems with KRnet? > Phil Maley wrote: > > > I am wondering why we don't just use yahoo groups. I run two or three > > yahoo mailing lists and it just keeps working with no problems. Their > > service is free although there is some advertising. They also provide > > plenty of space for uploading files, photos etc. Maybe we shouldn't > > try to muddy the waters at this time but it is a serious alternative. > > I really don't know what to do. The old list at mailinglists.com worked > flawlessly for two years before it just went belly-up for 4 days, but it's > back and working fine now. All I have to do is uncheck a couple of boxes > and we could migrate back to that one in a heartbeat and leave this one in > the dust. I'm not real impressed with the service we've gotten here. I've > emailed them with about 10 messages and gotten exactly one reply from a > human saying "we'll check into that". Of course service wasn't that great > from the previous list either, but then we never needed it either. This > list has a lot of handy bells and whistles, but people have always had > problems getting signed up for it (which is a hassle for me), and now with > most of the messages disappearing, we need to do something different because > it's just not getting the job done. > > I have a personal hangup with yahoo groups. Even if Yahoo doesn't sell your > email address to others, you address is just sitting out there for the > pickin' by the marketer's search engines. This list and the last were > "private" lists, and unless you're a member, you don't have access to the > member list, and even then, they are painful to extract (ask me how I know). > I'm working on my third week with new email address, and haven't had a > single spam message yet! I'd like to keep it that way. And the endless > advertising, popups, banner ads, and having to scroll down through it all to > get to the actual message just makes me crazy. > > I AM convinced that there is a problem with this list though. Although only > a couple of guys have cc'd me on messages that were sent to the list, at > least ten (that I know of) made it to me, but not the list, which absolves > their ISP, and strongly suggests a problem at mylist.net. And I've sent > serveral myself that didn't make it. I'm assuming that the folks at > mylist.net are on vacation this weekend, but will jump on this on Tuesday > morning. Maybe we should give them until Wednesday or so to figure it out > before we jump ship. Also, if we keep trying to use the system, we might > find more clues to help them identify the problem. > > One difference between this time and the last time is that I have a list of > everybody's email address that is on this list, and can easily send a > message to all subscribers, regardless of whether the list is working or > not. Although it would be a hassle for me to add folks back to the old list > myself, I could send a message telling folks to resubscribe, and how to do > it, so nobody should be left behind. > > After Wednesday, we'll think of something, but I'm certainly open to > suggestions... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
