RE: New UKHA Spinoff Group

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

It's not the point subscribing to all of the groups, but only to the ones you are interested in. UKHA became so big that if all the mails are read, you would spend all the day reading. So first level of filtering is done by subscribing to the ones you're interested in.

E.g.

If you don't have homevision and don't plan to buy it, you simply save yourself 20 mails a day by not subscribing to that group. If you start considering buying, you then join the group and you can still choose daily digest to receive all messages in a single mail.

If you are actively participating then you'll probably want to receive individual mails and sort them through Outlook or similar.

 

Yes, plenty of people made offers to host ukha lists, but it seems that nobody was able to provide Yahoo groups functionality. All the hostings offered either web based only or e-mail only solutions, while people on the groups want both. Someone needs web interface for accessing from work, while others need mail interface because of functionality and ease of managing messages.

Until someone offers both solutions in one I am happy with status quo.

Cheers,

Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew J Keay [mailto:m@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 July 2002 18:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] New UKHA Spinoff Group

I'm not so sure - when it gets to 18 groups imho it becomes over the top.
I'm suprised those on this list have the time/effort to subscribe to each
little list/etc.. and for the volume of messages - is it *really* such a
huge problem in perspective?

Topic headings could easily be defined and tuned - we're a community, right? :)

Cost wise, i cant see yahoo charging since they must generate £$£$£ >from e
offers/are willing to host the ukha* lists FOC.

Matthew

At 17:44 12/07/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Oh that old nut ......
>
>The bigest problem is that it's not easy to get people to use an agreed
>topic heading.
>
>I filter on the group that the e-mail comes from rather than the
>content, much more accurate imho.
>
>Also, it does mean that it's actually kinder on the net in terms of the
>volume of messages being shifted.
>
>Finally, and I think this is significant, is from yahoo's point of view
>it dillutes the message volume onto more than one group, owned by more
>than one person, hopefully reducing the chances of being charged.
>
>Cheers
>
>Stuart
>
>
>On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 17:37, Matthew J Keay wrote:
> > Geez! Do people not have mail clients capable of filtering emails? Can we
> > change the groups to topic headings to aid filtering or something?
> >
> > Or has ukha_d turned to a load of people with enough time to track and
> read
> > all the other groups (and monitor the new ones!).



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