[HPforGrownups] Re: Further note on our 'old' Yahoo club (responding to Amanda)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 11198

coriolan at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Would anyone be open to reconstituting HP4GU as a plain old Usenet
> newsgroup?  The disadvantage is that we'd be left open to all variety
> of spammers. The advantage would be that we wouldn't have to go
> through all this major hassle whenever Yahoo decides to have a
> paradigm shift.

Ack, no! One of the main reasons we're staying with YahooGroups is the file
sharing/storage options, as well as the archive ability. We would also be
unable to ban or otherwise discipline miscreants, delete spam/pornographic
posts, or close the membership of the group for a while if the posting rate
skyrocketed for some reason (i.e. we were mentioned on national news).

In my experience of Usenet, the downside of spam and the impossibility of
moderation quite outweigh the day or so of learning we have had to go
through with the eGroups/YahooGroups shift.

::puts down the Moderator Rock::

Speaking hypothetically, as myself, at some point, when we get our own
website up and running (and stable...very stable), we might consider moving
to a majordomo list...but that's in the FAR future, and is only a
hypothetical case anyway.

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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