[Public-List] Other group sites

[dan walker]

as a "member" of a couple other lists this is the best. thanks to george
dan



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 From: George Dinwiddie <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org>
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Other group sites
 
Hi, Don,

On 1/4/12 2:53 PM, potatosailor at yahoo.com wrote:
> I agree facebook would not be an upgrade for the list.
> The list gets two thumbs up, and many thanks to those involved in
> maintaining it.

You're welcome. This mailing list is, by far, the most successful feature of alberg30.org.

> I do think the list would benefit from being a 'yahoo group'

In case you don't know the history, this list started out on a service called OneList, when that was the first and only free email list hosting service I could find.  OneList was bought by eGroups, which was bought by Yahoo.  The yahoogroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alberg30/) still exists, but is mothballed just to preserve those message archives.  It's closed to new members to keep the activity in only one place. Two places would mean that many would sign up for both to avoid missing something, many would post their questions to both in case the person with the answer was only on one list, and monitoring the list would be twice as much work.

> It would maintain the archived database but would add a files section
> and a photos section and polls section for members to upload too that is
> separate from the messages list but easily accessed from the home page.

Yahoogroup files sections often become nests of spammy link files that try to fool search engines into giving higher weight to dubious sites. Such files and photo sections take a fair bit of moderator work, else they become cesspools of the internet dregs.

> I do appreciate the list and am certainly not knocking it,....but would
> be nice to have a photos section incorporated with it.

We actually have a photos section, though it's little used. See http://www.alberg30.org/gallery/main.php (linked from the top of the Photos page).  It requires a login to post pictures, but I'd be glad to set one up for those who are interested.

Mostly, people just send photos to me and I post them on the website.

- George

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