Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Archive question

[Greg Dunn (MyLists]

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>>
Another advantage to YahooGroups that I just thought if is that if a
member is having difficulty, there are many people on the list who can
explain things to them -- not just the one (tired) list manager.
<<
Amen! That's a BIG advantage.  Plus the skills you learn using one
Yahoogroup to tap into one little discussion world can be leveraged to
tap into lots of other worlds.  To some extent that's true with list
servers, in that many are based on the same software and have similar
command sets.  But in years of using list servers I still don't know any
of the commands by heart, and I've never set up a list server. By
contrast I've set up probably 15 or 20 different Yahoo groups and
participated in many more. It's just *easy*.

I guess you and I can be the "We Like Yahoogroups" contingent here. 8-)

By the way, have you noticed that there are 119 Yahoogroups in the
category "Top > Cultures & Community > Groups > Intentional Communities
> Cohousing"  ?  A few of these are bogus or misclassified, but a good
hundred of them are not.

Greg Dunn
 


-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org] On Behalf Of Sharon Villines
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:56 AM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Archive question


Dec 14, 2002:  Check out new URL at end of this (and every list message)
for Cohousing-L info page.  Season's Greetings.  Fred, list manager.
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On 12/17/2002 1:06 PM, "Greg Dunn" <MyLists [at] gregdunn.com> wrote:

> With newsgroups, only message headers get downloaded (by default): the

> body of a message doesn't get downloaded until you select it for 
> reading. This greatly reduces the quantity of material that has to be 
> downloaded - very important if you participate in a lot of groups.

I think this is why people like to read YahooGroups on the web. They go
to the site and review the message headers (and who sent them) and only
read the messages they want to read. There is no downloading (except for
the web page.

I'm one of the people who just never learned what a newsgroup was. If
the group has too many messages, I just read on the web when I'm
interested.

One group of discussers I belong to has found a good method of reducing
traffic. They have a basic identifier for the subject then form sublists
around that. Some people subscribe to all the lists and some just to
sublists. There no double posting. In cohousing it would go like this --
using coho as the shortened group name

Coho
Coho-Recipes
Coho-GreenBuilding
Coho-Homeschooling
Coho-LegalFinancial
Coho-Professionals
Etc.

That allows general discussion to go on while some people can just check
in on the subject they want to read about. If you care about all of
them, you join all the lists. When a subject is being discussed on one
of the lists that people on another list might want to know about, they
let others know
-- "GreenBuilding is discussing that topic now," or "Homeschooling just
found out about ... and is discussing it."

Another advantage to YahooGroups that I just thought if is that if a
member is having difficulty, there are many people on the list who can
explain things to them -- not just the one (tired) list manager.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org

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