WAS - KFactor Now "Members"

[GeorgeF.]

Here's another suggestion which would give the best of both worlds.   Setup 
a forum on Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com).   Here you have a forum which 
is easy to use plus each person can elect to have every post emailed to them.

It would work exactly as the current email list however each email would 
ALSO be archived and searchable.  Where this is a  help would be if a year 
from now a member would want info on the OS 1.6FX, he could go to the group 
and seach for OS 1.6FX and every post with that phrase would be displayed.

groups.yahoo.com accounts are free and very easy to setup and 
administer.   Not sure why I didn't think about it before as I currently 
administer 4 different groups for another hobby I'm involved in.

George



At 05:27 AM 11/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Forget Forums. I am a heavy user of the Internet and can navigate my way. 
>What makes our email group a favorite is its direct access. It is fun most 
>of the time (not lately that is!). Adding more gateways and blocks to talk 
>to each other is not constructive. I for one would not participate in a 
>Forum as there is already Forums all around. It will eliminate most 
>participants who are casual participants... not good for our numbers.
>For the last week we had some very constructive ideas, but mostly repeats 
>and repeats and an angry few that need to vent in any condition. And if 
>you must, write a short email instead of a dense page.
>Wade
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Rick Sweeney
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 4:56 AM
>To: 'Adam Glatt'; discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: RE: WAS - KFactor Now "Members"
>
>No, not necessary... Forums are free and can be placed on the current
>NSRCA web server. Ed already has one that he created.
>
>Also you would want the forum readable by the public, but not
>for contributing by non-members.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]
>On Behalf Of Adam Glatt
>Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:28 PM
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: WAS - KFactor Now "Members"
>
>I think limiting access to a newsgroup is done by creating a new news
>server.   That way the group isn't carried by any ISP news server.  We
>would
>have to make our own news.nsrca.org news server and require a username
>and
>password.  Sounds like another of these $75/hour jobs, plus the cost of
>running a server.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Martin X. Moleski, SJ" <moleski at canisius.edu>
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Sent: November 3, 2002 6:40 PM
>Subject: RE: WAS - KFactor Now "Members"
>
>
>
> > --On Sunday, November 03, 2002 7:22 PM +0000 Nik Middleton
><middletn at spinmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > For me, the best medium is the NNTP service (Newsgroup) However,
>getting
>on
> > > a backbone is difficult.
> >
> > I love newsgroups.
> >
> > You are 100% correct about getting listed.  I helped
> > set up a moderated group in 1998 and have been
> > monitoring news:news.groups for the last two years.
> >
> > Usenet is not designed for closed, pay-for-play groups.
> > WordPerfect runs news groups for support purposes
> > off a web site.  Probably others do, too.  I don't
> > know whether they can be restricted to registered
> > users only.
> >
> > Marty #2874
> >
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