Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 1:55 PM -0400 6/28/00, Dave Sill wrote:
>
>> >hit the wire today, Yahoo is buying egroups for $428 million in stock.
>>
>>That's insane.
>
>the money?
Yeah, the money.
>Actually, probably not. I think it's an interesting
>purchase, myself.
Nearly half a *billion* dollars for a handful of servers and a pile of
mailing lists? I'm glad I'm not a Yahoo stockholder. It's all funny
money, I guess.
>But IMHO what is interesting for list-managers is the change in
>ownership, in that yahoo is a lot more clueful (IMHO) than egroups,
>so this is a good thing in terms of who owns and manages that
>resource.
Well, MHO differs with yours. I've been pretty impressed with egroups,
but I find Yahoo's web fronting for various mom-and-pop retailers to
be rather lame. And there portal/search engine sucks, too. :-)
-Dave
