[TheForge] The future is now

[Marc Godbout]

I don't think you have to do all those gyrations with a Yahoo list. I run a
couple Yahoo lists for our club and non-Yahoo members just run off of email
fine. Yahoo's new "attachment" scheme is a pretty good compromise. If you
want to send an attachment, you email it like you normally would. Yahoo then
strips out the file and stores it at their site, but leaves a link to the
file, and puts "Attachment" in the subject line.

I have other problems with Yahoo, like their commercials on every email, and
as a moderator it has hiccups. The interface, at least for moderators, is
crappy. But the list members seem to have no real problems with it.

--Marc


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:

>
> Schade <schade at acegroup.cc> wrote:
>
> > Either way works for me. Some seem to have issues with yahoo.
>
> I'm one of those.
>
> > Don't really understand why.
>
> Um, because it's not email.  You have to connect to Yahoo with a web
> browser, enable cookies, enable javascript, use their cutesey graphic
> interface to "navigate", look at their advertizing, follow their
> rules, accept their way of organizing things.  In short, you have to
> read what would otherwise be your email using their web designer's
> concept of what the generic Consumer will like.
>