Jim, Like you, I run lists on FreeLists. I have also recreated my lists on Topica. I'm thinking I'll just go ahead and move them over even though FreeLists is back up. I like the interface at Topica. Yes, moving may cause some consternation among my members, but it's a great way to 'weed out the chaff'. When I moved from Yahoo to FreeLists I was accused of spamming by people that had forgotten they had ever signed up for my list while it was at Yahoo and set themselves to 'no mail'. So if I go thru with the move I'll just stop accepting messages to the FreeLists address and give instructions to the existing users to sign up at Topica. There is only one thing stopping me - SPAM. Topica doesn't seem to have the same ability to create a spam filter and I don't have time to moderate every message. So have you made up your mind? I vote for Topica. >>> jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/08/03 08:43PM >>> 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 ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor - RTOSoft TScale Complaints about applications response time - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! TScale 2.0 improves applications response time and increases terminal server capacity. Really get MORE from your existing servers! Free eval: http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=130 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ----------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ----------------------------------------------------- <<<<GWIASIG 0.07>>>> ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor - RTOSoft TScale Complaints about applications response time - DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! TScale 2.0 improves applications response time and increases terminal server capacity. Really get MORE from your existing servers! Free eval: http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=130 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm