VMs: Re: New mailing list address -- possibly short-term

[Invent Yourself <xod@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Philip Neal wrote:


> I think it is important that a long term solution should maintain the
> quality of the list. At present, contributions are of a high standard;
> generally on topic and well thought out. I think this is because of the
> listserv format and the fact that our existence is publicised on a few
> serious web sites which frankly deter people with nothing to contribute.
> Egroups and public noticeboards attract far more cranks and spammers
> than a mailing list, and the advertising is getting increasingly
> intrusive.


While I agree with you on the increasing pervasion of advertising, eGroups
(which has since become YahooGroups) is extremely good about filtering out
spam: it is trivial to configure such that only members are allowed to
post. I got more spam from voynich@rand than I've gotten from all my
eGroup/YahooGroup usage ever, because the latter was none. Also,
membership does not have to be open, but rather can be the discretion of
the moderator. And finally, for extreme antisociability, groups can be
hidden so they don't appear in the directory of groups.



> Whatever we do, archiving will be the big problem, and I am afraid I
> have no answer to this.



YahooGroups archives, too.



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