[NTLUG:Discuss] re: NTLUG move revisited

[JR Newsletters]

I've managed lists on Yahoo before, and have ended up putting them on my 
own server.  Why?  You do get an appended line of advertisement at the 
end of every message.  The list control, I find, isn't as good as 
Mailman is, and, annonyingly, if someone browses the Archives on Yahoo, 
much less, as you read each message, you get an ad about every 2 or 3 
messages you read -- and you're reminded that Yahoo is a paid 
advertising site so you have to see the ads.  If I am contributing or 
paying dues to NTLUG, I sure don't want to see any ads on either the 
mail list or newsgroup server.  And what does it say about a Linux group 
if they can't even maintain their own mail list/news server?  :)

Note Fred, that you even have a yahoo webhosting add at the bottom of 
your mail message.

Just my opinion,
--JR


Fred wrote:

>Madhat (and others)
>
>I guess I am missing something here. I am list God on 3 Yahoo lists and am
>subscribed to several others, and I have never had any problems with them. No
>ads and very little spamming. What diff does it make what their OS is? All we
>are talking about is a mail list. All that you as admin would have to do is
>retrain your subscriber base to send their submissions to a different address.
>The rest is kinda simple. No muss, no fuss and it is free to the club.
>
>If the object is to keep a list server integrated with the ntlug.org domain
>name in order to fulfill some other need, then obviously the Yahoo route is not
>the way to go.
>
>Fred
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