[Public-List] Other group sites

[Gordon Laco]

I agree - and I like the people too.

Gord



On 04/01/12 7:06 PM, "dan walker" <dsailormon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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