[Public-List] Other group sites

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Agree

John Boor
MAHSEER #380

> I agree - and I like the people too.
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> Gord
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> On 04/01/12 7:06 PM, "dan walker" <dsailormon at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 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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