<<and leave the archives public. >> Guess I got a problem with leaving the archives public also. And, even if you aren't a member of yahoo, you still have to wade thru all the damn advertisements when you search the archives. Plus, I never found the search feature in yahoo archives to work very well. You have to search each page of the archives separately and it takes forever. I never had any luck at searching there. I think the freelist's search feature works much better on the archives....it searches the whole archives at one shot and actually finds results. In all the yahoo groups I'm in, a lot of the posts begin with "I tried searching the archives for this but couldn't find it...", so what good are archives if half the people can't find anything in them? I think the problem is the yahoo archives don't function like true archives. True archives are not for reading and replying...they are for searching, and that's what the freelists archives do. Yahoo archives are used more like a forum....and that's what people miss. Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: freelists-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:freelists-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:01 AM To: freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [freelists-users] Re: Archive your list at Yahoogroups I see your point but a lot of my members are really tied to the interface at Yahoo. None of the members NEED to be subscribed. Just keep yourself subscribed as moderator, delete all members and leave the archives public. And yes you can reply using your Yahoo email account if it is on the freelists list. Regards, Jim Kenzig =========================================================== The FreeLists-Users mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/freelists-users Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ===========================================================