For what it's worth, Yahoo blocks many ISPs and Email Service Providers. They say it's due to spam but I suspect it's at least partly due to competition. Also, many corporate proxies block outbound Yahoo email. Both of these would limit participation. I've also heard from people using Yahoo groups that the digest option is horribly unreliable. I also get a lot more spam from my Yahoo account than I ever do from this account, it's just that the spam doesn't come through the Yahoo groups, it comes independently. Of course, I don't use that account for anything else so I have to assume the spammers have a way to troll the group membership.
I like this list server. It's fast, it's reliable, it has all the options of a Listserv. And I kind of prefer having a list owner who is an administrator and not a participant because of his hands-off approach and his impartiality on those occasions when we need his help. I think the only real problem we had here was that our list owner was not immediately available. If we got a secondary contact for the existing list, we'd have more reliable access when problems crop up. Would that not be acceptable? -- T.Rob -----Original Message----- From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Moving the list server ? In light of all the problems with users sending read replies and not being able to get the owners/moderators to do anything, perhaps it is time to move the list to Yahoo groups... I know they send advertising but a group of us could be moderators and hence control things a bit better ? Any thoughts anyone... Sid Young QML Pathology Brisbane Australia Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://vm.akh-wien.ac.at/MQSeries.archive
