[freelists-users] Re: Archive your list at Yahoogroups
- From: "Kari" <kari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:12:23 -0700
As someone who had a very active, long standing group on Yahoo groups I
would strongly advise against Yahoo for anything important. Countless list
owners at Yahoo, like myself, have had their communities completely deleted
without reason or apology.
Everything -- gone!
Now I'm using Topica to keep my archives and have no complaints. They do a
great job of keeping the archives, they are easy to delete and it also
digests them.
I am boycotting all Yahoo! services. The moment you sign up for your Yahoo
ID your email goes on the marketing list (meaning it's already been shot out
into the world) by time you can get in and change your options. I tested
this with a unique email address.
Kari
> Something I thought I would point out for those who move from yahoogroups.
> Yahoo has a remote list feature that will archive list messages from
> Freelists so users who prefer reading messages at yahoo can do so.
>
> In your yahoogroup go to group settings and Edit remote settings. Check
the
> box to make it a remote group. Once your listname is set up at freelists
you
> put the listname in and freelists.org for the host and
> yourlistname-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx for the mail handler.
>
> Then you subscribe a special email address called
> listsaver-of-yourlistname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to the list at freelists and
> yahoo will archive all the messages from your list and readers can read
> them there if you make the archives public.
> (Note yourlistname is the name of your list at Freelists) Now all
messages
> sent to your freelist will also be archived at Yahoogroups.
>
> This makes the move over from Yahoogroups that much easier for everyone
> involved and is real sweet.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Kenzig
> http://thethin.net
> Moderator of Freelists:
> Windows2000
> THIN
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