[THIN] Re: FW: THE THIN LIST You may get this message twice
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:44:33 +0100
I don't even notice the =20 any more.
Of course, I don't notice the trains thundering past my house, or the
fighter aircraft taking off over it either. Perhaps I'm just not very
observant.
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From: Chris Lynch [mailto:lynch00@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 July 2003 20:33
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FW: THE THIN LIST You may get this message twice
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I agree with this comment, but at the same time IT IS VERY ANNOYING to have
a ton of =20 scattered throughout the email message.
Chris
- -----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of George Yobst
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:16 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: FW: THE THIN LIST You may get this message twice
My vote is to stick with Freelists.
I can't even get the verification email from Topica to get signed up there!
- -George
Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net wrote:
> Here is what has happened. On Saturday July 5th Freelists site had a
> major lightning strike and their message on their site made things
> look really bleak. Thy have been down since Saturday and JUST came up.
>
> In my desperation to reestablish the Thin List I tried to find a
> comparable service. I first tried coolists.com but found that their
> interface and options just would not work..autoreplies went to the
> list etc. and there was no way to turn them off. Then I tried
> Smartgroups...no go...they did not have a vacation/read only mode. So I
settled on Topica.com.
>
> The good folks at topica.com JUST finished adding all of the users I
> had to the list. We ended up with 1437 subscribers.
> There were 2710 members at freelists but HALF of them have their
> subscription set to vacation mode. Which means they do not participate
> anyways.
>
> We have two choices.
>
> 1. Stick with Freelists
> or
> 2. Go to Topica.com
>
>
> The benefits of freelists are there are no ads in the archives or on
> the web pages.
> The benefits of Topica are that there is not that stupid =20 problem
> and that there is an unsubscribe link on each message.
>
> Both have a digest mode, both have a vacation mode
>
> Or possible there is a third option.
>
> We can stick with freelists and keep the Topica list up as a backup if
> freelists goes down again.
>
> What is the general consensus?
>
> Regards,
> Jim Kenzig
> Moderator
>
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