Jon Kamm schrieb:
Just a few benefits of Google Groups.
1. Dynamic conversations: Postings
to both Usenet and mailing lists appear in 10 seconds and are indexed
within 10 minutes.
No feature I can`t live without.
2. Enhanced user interface: You
can track and mark topics using the "My Groups" feature, and view
postings in several ways, including by message summary, title, or
conversation view.
Nothing my e-mail prgr can`t
3. Group Alerts: You can can get
e-mail alerts only when specific topics or words are posted.
so you have to check the site to get the bit of info after you`ve read
the mail. not a great plus imho.
4. End user control: Its easy to
to join or remove yourself from the list.
it`s not really difficult to leave this list - or join
5. Member profiles: Each member
can have his or her own profile. Tell the rest of the group about
yourself.
why not tell it in an e-mail if you feel like ?
6. Clickable links that are not
cut off for no reason.
?
7. Rating posts: Ratings help
indicate which posts you find most helpful. When you're browsing a
group, you can rate a post and your rating will become part of that
post’s overall rating.
well, does it really help if you´re not like 10 years involved and know
the people posting ?
8. Starring
topics: Starring a topic allows you to easily follow an important
thread or favorite topic.
mozilla thunderbird let`s you sort your mails in topics as date or
persons, besides the traffic on this list is not really that incredible
high so the danger to miss out something very interesting in a flood of
mails is pretty low.
9. Advanced search:
Want to find an old post. search by date, word, phrase, author. anything
again no great difference with the above mentioned prg
10. Fully integrated
archives going back more then 20 years.
a list archive is around
11. a moderator that
"IS" available.
.......more available
Not sure if the moderator would be online 24 hrs a day just because you
change the ways of posting. Who would want to wait all the time for a
post to arrive to jump into action. What action anyway ? Reply to every
silly thread ? Delete unsuitable comments ?
Sorry if I sound a bit negative but I can´t see a great plus in
changing this, maybe besides appearing more often in Google if someone
looks up what Yello related links are available... Besides I don´t
trust google (or yahoo) more than anyone else out there in cyberia. Try
if for free, just click the I AGREE button and we`ll post you the bill
someday....
- carsten
_______________________________________________
Yello mailing list
Yello@mailman.xmission.com
http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yello
Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com