On Jun 29, 9:53am, Alan S. Harrell wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2000, 22:13, Allen Smith wrote:
>
> > I'm concerned about this because I'm an admin for a lyris list
> > (see http://www.iislists.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=uupoly), which
> > we've been looking at moving onto egroups for various reasons
> > (including the availability of a lot more other potential
> > admins - people seem to have problems with the learning curve
> > necessary for lyris administration, among other things). It's on a
> > somewhat controversial topic, namely polyamory, so privacy is a
> > concern.
> >
> > Anyone have any information about this?
>
> At eGroups you can designate your list as private and thus not have it
> appear in the public database. You can hide your archives from the
> public and just make available to your list members or just yourself.
> You can hide other features such as your files or calendar area.
Right.
> As to the difficulty your list members have had with Lyris, have you
> made a web site interface with list administration forms for those who
> are e-mail challenged? It sort of has become obligatory for list
> owners today to have a web site supporting their lists that includes
> some type of subscription form.
Actually, lyris includes a web site built-in; see above. The problem
isn't the lack of a web interface... it's that the web interface in
question is, to at least some, problematic in its design
(comprehensibility).
-Allen
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