RE: Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again

["Ben McCormack" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>]

Chris

I agree with you there. One huge advantage that I believe that the forum
approach has is that new users can browse the messages much more easily,
I believe that it would give the group more visibility which can't be a
bad thing

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bond [mailto:chris@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 February 2003 09:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again


Personally i'd prefer a mailing list myself :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben McCormack" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again


> I know that is may be a radical idea, but could we consider moving to
> a 'message board' system like avforums?
>
> Simply, downsides are that posts are not send via email Upsides, you
> can have different forums and new users can just have a browse around.
>
> Ben 'Putting think flameproof suite on'
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 February 2003 09:07
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again
>
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> To perhaps put things into perspective as to why you wouldn't want
> this on your ADSL line.
>
>
> On average last year the list moved ~2900 messages a month. The
> average message size for January 2003 was 4KBytes The list currently
> has 850 members.
>
> I recieve my e-mail as plain text. So I'm going to ad 20% to allow for

> those with HTML e-mail.
>
> 2900 x 4KB = 11.4 MB
>
> 11.4MB x 850 = 9.5GB
>
> 9.5GB + 20% = 11.3GB
>
> 11.3GB / 30 = 385MB / Day on average
>
> Since ADSL can only send at 128Kbit/s MAX = 1GB / Day.
>
> Of course some days are heavier than others. It's clear from this that

> messages would arrive more slowly than from yahoo on a bad day.
>
> Regards
>
> Stuart
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