RE: Archive question | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sheila Braun (sbraun![]() |
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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 10:03:01 -0700 (MST) |
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. - - You can add me to the "We Like YahooGroups" contingent. I've had lists on there for seven years now & have had problems only once. And you can get rid of the ads ($4.95 per month or something ridiculously low like that). Re: the objection about yahoogroups becoming a monopoly like microsoft. I guess I think that yahoo becoming larger & including millions more lists would be bad only if they used predatory tactics to make sure nobody *but* them could exist, or if they did a lousy job organizing and archiving them. I don't get that sense from them, though. It seems to me that yahoo is a really good idea that meets many needs for many, many different kinds of people and keeps improving over time. Sheila On 20 Dec 2002 02:13 EST you wrote: > 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. > - - > > >> > 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. > - - > > 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 > -- > Sharon Villines > Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org > > _______________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list > Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L > > > _______________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list > Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
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