Re: LF: Why is this group not a Yahoo group with archives and web access?

[Paul Nicholson <vlf0308@abelian.org>]

Roger Lapthorn wrote:
> it would be much better if it was a Yahoo Group.

It can often take a long time - several hours, for a message
to come through a Yahoo group.  Useless for activity alerts.
Sometimes messages are lost completely, or appear in the
group archives but are not received by email.

> All messages are archived and can be searched easily, even
> years later

Maybe, so long as Yahoo continue the service.  There's nothing
to stop them pulling the plug on a group - or all groups for that
matter, if business policy changes.

One of the nice things about joining the LF list is to find a
simple no-nonsense email reflector with a short reliable
round-trip time - so refreshing compared with the Yahoo monster
clunky too-full-of-features unreliable group server.

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Paul Nicholson
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