RE: Yahoo Groups (Yes again sorry but this has to be said)

["Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>]

I am not surprised that this issue has raised it's head again. My original
alternative proposal will still be archived somewhere and at the time the
prooposal was made, I had positive feedback from a number of long term list
members for said proposal (often off list) but the general list consensus
was to stick to Yahoo so it has not progressed to a live system. My
original
proposal remains an option should a move become a majority desire.

In order to create an accurate picture, it may be better to make a poll
into
this have multiple stages. The first getting feedback on staying with or
leaving Yahoo and then investigating the options if there ia a majority in
favour of an alternative provision. I would suggest that the initial poll
is
"Assuming all the functionality of Yahoo could be sourced elsewhere,
would
you prefer to stay with Yahoo?" with merely Yes and No as responses.

The actual provision of services elsewhere would not really be a huge
issue.
Moving the list members is much more difficult so without having the
initial
majority vote for move, further investigation is largely worthless.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bond [mailto:chris@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 November 2002 21:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Yahoo Groups (Yes again sorry but this has to be
said)
>
>
> Ok im daring to bring up this subject again - sorry if it offends
> anyone, especially the moderators and mark mccall.  If Mark or the
> moderators really object to this discussion then please delete it.
>
> Rather than this be a flame thread saying yahoo is crap which we all
> know please make it constructive. Yahoo does have its goods point's,
> those being a mailing list, web interface, files area and a few other
> bits. I've suggested a few things below - please feel free to post
your
> comments as im ONE member of ukha_d.
>
> Put in brief - The yahoogroups situation is getting silly at the
moment
> its taking forever to distribute the emails to everybody with quite
> often long long delays.  This is happening because of the volume of
> traffic yahoo are coping with on a global scale of there lists.
>
> Considering the size of yahoo you'd think they would fix this but they
> know about the problem for a long while and are ignoring it. One thing
> to bear in mind is they don't make a lot of money on the groups lists
> bar the advertising they get from it.
>
> What im suggesting we put it to the public poll (under marks and the
> moderators permission) like we're doing for the 2003 meet with
something
> like the following options.
>
> Im happy to stay with yahoogroups even if it has its downfalls at the
> moment:
> o Yes
> o No - Let's find a better alternative that's free
> o No - I'm willing to pay a small fee for a commercial list provider
> that's known to be reliable.  For example, lyris.com offer this
service
> (very expensive, but with a little research we could find a better
one)
> o No - Try and find a sponsored commercial list provider.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris Bond
>
>
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