On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0000, Denny wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote: > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote: > > > Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if > > > the people who run it have engineered it to discourage the occasional > > > giver as much as possible. > > Sounds like another great idea turned into a YAWOT (Yet Another Waste > > Of Time) because it's grown, or was built, too complicated. > Mostly it just suffers from using Yahoo groups as the back-end
Yahoo Groups is pretty good for a mailing list. Obviously not as good as Mailman or Majordomo, but for people who don't know how to run them, it's a very good alternative, but ... > and then > trying to wrapper those in a failed attempt to make them friendlier or > something. Oh dear. Take something that works well and try to fix it. Oops. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELL From =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELL Message is from David Cantrell score FROM_DAVID_CANTRELL 15.72 # This figure from experimentation