Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: wiki's again

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 23 Sep 2010, at 2:35 PM, Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah wrote:

>  The best thing is that they  
> are searchable: that's a huge plus.

Now that we have a huge archive tens of thousands of messages, 10 years worth, 
the search function often doesn't work. While Google apps seems very convenient 
— one stop shopping — my experience with Yahoo makes me very cautious. One good 
thing perhaps is that with Google you piggyback on the corporate services That 
is where they make their money — the upgrades. Perhaps this is good insurance.

I find their groups much less easy to use as a moderator than YahooGroups. A 
major reason is that when I have to approve messages, I have to go to the site 
to see them first. 

> What I don't like is the limits on how things can be organized (I  
> think in outline form). I get frustrated with lists that are in the  
> order they were loaded, not in an order I would choose.

I finally figured out that I could lists of files put in the right order by 
changing their names so they sort properly.

Google is making too many decisions for users — Chrome, for example, doesn't 
allow you to NOT use taps. Their apps have many wonderful features but you have 
to want to do it their way. It feels arrogant, not like a service-oriented 
organization. To be clever is easy, to be kind is hard.

Sharon
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