On Nov 27, 2007 7:05 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josiah Worcester wrote: > >http://groups.google.com/group/agoras-child Voila. > > Does this operate as a mailing list? It doesn't seem to have any way to > subscribe other than by having a "Google Account", which is presumably > concerned with the Google Groups website. I've always found these groups > impossible to use as a serious forum. > > I note that the messages that are visible on the website suffer from > deliberate corruption by the group software. (It tries to obscure > anything that looks vaguely like an email address.)
The Google groups to which I am subscribed act as mailing lists with some fancy web features that I never use (although I've found that the web interface is handy for replying to a particular message when I'm subscribed in digest mode). The emails that they send out keep the messages fully intact, without obscuring anything. I've had similar experiences with Yahoo groups. Of course, I use my Gmail account to interact with them, but others use non-Google email addresses, and I haven't heard of any problems arising from that. -root
