VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address -- possiblyshort-term

["Rob O'Callaghan" <greenfielddev@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
     I've been using yahoo groups for quite a while now for some of my own
private groups and would recommend it. Although you would have to register
it has quiet a few useful benefits:-

The messages are archived.
You can search messages.
You can view the messages by thread or date.
You can opt to receive each message as an email/the days worth as a digest
or only view them online (handy when you go on holiday).
There is a files area for uploading files/images.
There is a links areas for peoples home pages.

I would also recommend setting up a webring to link peoples pages together.

Rob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Voynich Ms. mailing list" <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 12:58 PM
Subject: VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address --
possiblyshort-term


> Java and javascript are unrelated as Java is a compiled language while
> harmless little javascript is interpreted. Javascript downloads much
faster
> and runs fairly quickly because it is text, while Java downloads slowly
> because it's compiled and runs extremely quick once loaded on your system.
>
> John.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dana Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Voynich Ms. mailing list" <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <AFScott@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:45 PM
> Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address --
> possiblyshort-term
>
>
> > Hmm. I have nothing against Java, but then again there is this little
> problem
> > brewing out there on the ether...
> >
> > I hope you can access this:
> >
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/la-030802sun_wr.story?coll=la%2
> Dap%2Dtopnews%2Dheadlines
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dana Scott
> >
> > John Grove wrote:
> >
> > > Colour me confused once again... but, couldn't we just build our very
> own
> > > bulletin board with our own membership sign in and not use Yahoo? Any
> > > webhost out there provides enough space to run a board and there are
> enough
> > > free cgi scripts to build a simple or not-so-simple board. The
question
> > > isn't whether we need to be housed on some commercial enterprise that
> > > flashes ads at you - it's do we want all our conversations exposed to
> the
> > > whole world and searchable by google...
> > > For that matter, we could exclude the webpages of the webboard from
> being
> > > indexed by robots etc and nobody could ever find us...
> > >
> > > Do we want to be able to view the pages in HTML or do we prefer to use
> email
> > > because we like to download the files from our server onto our
computer
> for
> > > later viewing in a text only format? If you haven't guessed yet, I'm
> > > starting to convince myself that a webboard is a better solution to an
> > > active discussion group. It can be controlled for
> reading/writing/searching
> > > as required. And it can display in various fonts on various operating
> > > systems and browsers....
> > >
> > > I don't see what the fear of javascript could be -- It's quite a
helpful
> > > scripting language for making the pages do lots of magical things [and
> it's
> > > completely harmless (cookie-abuse market tracking aside)].
> > >
> > > John.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jacques Guy" <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "Voynich Ms. mailing list" <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:50 AM
> > > Subject: VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address -- possibly
> > > short-term
> > >
> > > > Just yesterday I stumbled across a Yahoo discussion
> > > > group (or whatever they call themselves) about
> > > > Easter Island. I wanted to post an answer to a
> > > > question put there, but I had to register.
> > > >
> > > > After an hour of effort, I gave up in disgust.
> > > >
> > > > First, I had to give my country of origin and
> > > > my postcode. No business of yours, folks, so
> > > > I clicked on the first country in the list
> > > > (USA) and entered 123456 as postcode. The wretched
> > > > thing complained that it was not a valid postcode.
> > > > My curiosity awakened, I tried Bangladesh. Same
> > > > story. Mind you, had I wanted to try France, it
> > > > was not on the list displayed (but Thailand was),
> > > > I would have had to enable JavaScript first,
> > > > then click on the link to more countries.
> > > >
> > > > Then I was asked my sex. It complained when
> > > > I left it out.
> > > >
> > > > Then my occupation. Thankfully, there was "other".
> > > >
> > > > Then my title. It complained when I left it
> > > > unanswered.
> > > >
> > > > Then... I forgot.
> > > >
> > > > Finally, I had to choose a member ID. Now there are less
> > > > than 200 people on that list, so I was surprised when
> > > > all the IDs I tried were knocked back: already
> > > > attributed. TeHaha, TeRoro to start with. Then
> > > > I got sick of my Polynesian names being rejected,
> > > > and I used some names I had made for myself when
> > > > playing Ultima VII. Kaa. Already taken. Tskaa.
> > > > Already taken (what???? yes.). Into Japanese now.
> > > > Tsurezuregusa. You've guessed: already taken.
> > > >
> > > > It was clear by then that your proposed user name
> > > > was matched against all the members of _all_ their
> > > > lists.
> > > >
> > > > When you add to that the ads which apparently come
> > > > gracing your mailbox... count me out.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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