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. 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. 3. Group Alerts: You can can get e-mail alerts only when specific topics or words are posted. 4. End user control: Its easy to to join or remove yourself from the list. 5. Member profiles: Each member can have his or her own profile. Tell the rest of the group about yourself. 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. 8. Starring topics: Starring a topic allows you to easily follow an important thread or favorite topic. 9. Advanced search: Want to find an old post. search by date, word, phrase, author. anything 10. Fully integrated archives going back more then 20 years. 11. a moderator that "IS" available. .......more available
Klonk Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:23:25 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> [re: [Yello] manual drm]:
Just a few benefits of Google Groups. None of which is UN-available software side.
And wait, did you say Google Groups or Yahoo! Groups - because they are distinct. Google Groups is essentially a front-end for Usenet. Yahoo! Groups is, in theory, an additionally featured mailing list. It's imperfect, and wholly unecessary. Besides, don't you already have your fancy Forum to keep you in control and all benevolent and benefactorrific?
11. a moderator that "IS" available. Ah. And now we come to what iKamm wants most of all. iGod of all Yello discussion.
Seriously. Just knock it off. If you dislike the list so much, just leave us well enough and better off without your unctuous bids for supremacy. You have your golden forum, full of worshippers. Just because you cannot own this list doesn't mean you should seek to replace it. Besides, as has been pointed out already bu Julian, Yahoo! Groups are blocked by his [and many others'] work Proxy server[s] AND there is already a Yahoo groups for Yello. What's the problem with that one? Is it really so horrible to not be in control? And before you squeal, no, you haven't once seen me make any kind of bid for control over the list. I am quite satisfied with the anarchic nature of things - you and I disagree sharply and often, but things tend to dissipate over time.... No need for a babysitter or a nanny. But I am sure that, as usual, you will ignore the inconvenience to others and just blunder forward. --gcr
AS we all will! On Tuesday, April 04, 2006, at 08:26PM, <klort@hydrophilus.com> wrote:
Klonk Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:23:25 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> [re: [Yello] manual drm]:
But I am sure that, as usual, you will ignore the inconvenience to others and just blunder forward.
--gcr
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On 05/04/06, Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> wrote:
Just a few benefits of Google Groups.
... I don't dispute the "benefits" but I have had some issues. At work here I partake and contribute in related (technical) newsgroups, and when our company news server was down for an extended period, I subscribed to google groups, and used my gmail. Unfortunate, google does not let you mung your email, and I now get regular spam, OK it's filtered 99% of the time, but this is the only place/method where my google address could have been harvested as it is posted to Usenet. Groups is a good archive, and I use it on the technical group, because I can "google" it, very useful. And I'm sure these list archives (which do exist) are useful to some of the newer members, or us older ones with failing memory cells! -- Regards, Nic. We are the architects, not the victims of our own destiny
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
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