It is up to the moderators to decide, of course.  Another thing you
can't do on yahoogroups without a Yahoo ID, image recognition, etc., is
read the mail on the Web.  (You could - thus - be a member of a group,
without downloading their mail.)  However, if I were to choose I would
choose Freelists, because of the three main players - yahoogroups,
smartgroups, and freelists - it is the least troublesome.  George called
it right!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Rossi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: St. John's plans to close maelstrom lists


The one freelist group I am on has had it's share of problems.  Lots of
dropped messages and such.

I am on several yahoo groups and personally have no problems, but
several
people have complained about constantly getting bounced and problems
with
their ISP and yahoo groups playing well together.

You don't need to sign up with a yahoo group membership to join, send,
and
receive messages from the group.  So no issues with the image or garbled
sound thing.  Although, if you don't have a yahoo group ID, you can't
download group files or view the archives, I believe.

So, in short, none of them are perfect.

--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel:    (412) 268-9081


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