Howdy--and a Yahoo! Note

[boyd_smythe]

Whew! This looks to be fun, and after reading everything I can't 
believe I'm saying that. You have all done an amazing job on this 
project; I'm honored to join. BTW, I love predictions, and I'll be 
paying extra attention to whether our current predictions categories 
can be improved.

Here's the quick note on Yahoo! If I'm Yahoo!, my concern about this 
project is the decrease in eyeballs hitting my site and generating 
my ad dollars. So there are a couple of ways around this:
1) As suggested, have the database link to Y!Groups to read the 
message 
2) Once built, download the database to the Y!Groups site as some kind 
of useable file. That would keep the content on Yahoo!
3) Discuss with Yahoo! the idea of adding this functionality to their 
Y!Groups site with us as the beta-testers. Other groups might like 
this, albeit to a lesser extent.
4) Purchase space on Yahoo! or its subsidiary, Geocities, for our own 
home page. Then they're still getting the eyeballs and resulting 
revenue, plus any fees we pay. Of course, this means $$$. Donations, 
anyone?

It might bolster our case to mention that all of these options would 
also be much like effective advertising and generate more visits to 
the site over time. And my assumption here is that it would be *way* 
better to head this off at the pass (yes, I'm from Texas) than to hope 
it doesn't become an issue. So if we haven't already, I'd vote for at 
least a small exploratory talk with them.