On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:05:55 -0400, Tamara wrote:
I
think Spitzenliste (German language mostly) is web-based now - I no
longer subscribe to it.
Spitzenliste is at Yahoo, which is a cross between email and web based.
Those who like web based can read on the web, but I choose to receive the
emails sent to me as text, like the arachne ones. Spitzenliste at Yahoo has
a private area for exchanging a limited amount of pictures. The big
downsides are that sign up is a lot more complicated than just sending a
subscribe email, and if sign up isn't done carefully ticking all of the
don't send boxes lurking on multiple pages it can result in a lot of
advertising material being sent as well. Sign up also asks for a lot of
intrusive unnecessary information so that members can be advertised to -
which is why I show up on their system as a 105 year old male student! And
just to keep us on our toes, a couple of times Yahoo have sent a mail saying
we're introducing new service xxx so we've reset all your settings to
default i.e. get all the crap, so I had to go back in and untick it all
again. Yahoo get their advertising to me by putting an ad at the bottom of
every message, which is fair enough as that's what pays for the service. I
just don't want extra over and above that.
Just as having to remember to check a message board for messages -
instead of having them shipped directly to my inbox - makes it a step
removed...
Yes, that's one of the disadvantages for me. I can join arachne using the
account on my mobile phone, knowing it can cope with a text only list, and I
can use it to send live reports from conventions. I couldn't do that on a
web based board - the phone wouldn't maintain a connection long enough and
the connection charges would be horrendous.
--
Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately it kills all its students.
Steph Peters, Manchester, England
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