[LEN-E] Yahoo Boohoo (LONG)

[Ron Koster]

At 05:37 PM 31/01/2007 +0100, Thomas Köhler wrote:

>Though Ron privately told me a little bit about 

>his experiences with yahoo in these

>last few days, I had no idea that the whole affair was THAT embarassing


I assume you mean embarrassing for *them* (Yahoo) 
-- at least, they should be embarrassed! However, 
I have a sense that they feel no shame in 
deleting groups like they do -- and in that 
regard, it was at least reassuring (ironically) 
that my/our group wasn't the only one that's been 
deleted without warning or explanation. :/


>But anyway, thanks again to Ron for setting up this list again in a

>different form so quickly,


Well, you (all) are most welcome! :)

By the way, there are a couple of differences now 
with this "new" list. For one thing, it was 
suggested that the list archives should be 
publically accessible -- over on Yahoo, the 
archives were for "list members only", but I 
think our discussions were really good, helpful 
and informative, and so this time I've made them "public."

I hope that doesn't deter anyone from posting, of 
course! If anyone can think of a legitimate 
reason to not do it this way, please say so.

Also, previously attachments to the list were not 
allowed, although for the time being I've set 
this list to allow them -- certain kinds of 
attachments, anyway. Anything that's susceptible 
to being a virus (software/programs, etc.) won't 
go through, but images (JPEGs, etc.) should. I 
haven't tried it yet, but I think images are put 
somewhere in the archives, with a link included 
in the list message referring to it, rather than 
embedding the attachment right into the message 
itself -- that should make it better for anyone on dialup, of course.

I did also set a 100k limit on the size of posts 
-- I have no idea (yet) if that includes 
attachments or just the actual text message 
itself, but I guess we'll find that out, too, in time!

If anyone has any other suggestions/requests for 
what we might do differently for this list, don't be shy!


>and hope everyone's joining here again soon!


Well, the "usual bunch" is here already -- but 
we're far from the approx. 100 members we had 
before. I guess maybe some people just decided 
not to come back, or perhaps my (re-)invitation 
to join the list wasn't quite clear. I don't know 
-- but I'm sure that anyone who really wants to 
be here will figure out what happened, and where to find us again.

Which reminds me... I better get the list page on 
my site updated with the new/correct info!

Oops!

Ron 8!

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