On 11 Feb 2001, at 11:14, Amy Stinson wrote:
> Just for grins I set up a list on Yahoogroups (KOA of the Internet) to
> see what's involved in managing a list there.
> Attachment handling is poor. It's all or nothing at least with
> RTF, while even LITE allows html and rtf to be stripped as well as
> other kinds of attachments rather than rejecting the message
> outright. You can't reject certain kinds of attachments, while
> accepting others, like you can with LISTSERV or LITE.
Attachment handling is inflexible, but it does allow rejecting of the
HTML portion of multipart-alternative while passing text.
> It also offers no individual moderation, such as NOPOST or REVIEW
> ...
It does allow individual members to be on No Post or Individual
Moderation, which sounds like what you're referring to.
> ... nor does it appear to automatically handle bounces ...
It does automatically handle bounces. Hard bounces stop mail, soft
bounces are tolerated until a certain threshold is met in a certain
period of time, then mail is stopped. Listowners can manually
unbounce subscribers, but otherwise Yahoogroups handles sending probe
messages to periodically check for bounce status.
> There appears to be no way to access the archives or search by
> email (you can't search with LITE either way) nor can you set your
> email to NOMAIL or digest or individual mails except by web
> interface
You do need to use the Web interface to access the archives.
However, you can go No Mail, or digest, or individual mails via email
command.
It seemed the rest of your analysis was spot on.
-- Jim
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