I own or moderate some ten Yahoo Groups lists, all for ham radio, including the Amateur Radio Moderators' list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmateurRadioModerators/ . While Yahoo has its problems for owners/moderators (e.g. the bouncing members' lists), it has a lot of flexibility and options for members and is easy to use. If this is the direction the NJDXA decides to go, I'll have no problem with it. HOWEVER (big "however"), I have always found it refreshing to subscribe to a list for which I don't have to log in periodically, don't have to put up with advertising and seemingly endless trailers, and isn't dependent upon Yahoo's vagaries of service (e.g. "This site is currently unaccessible" or "cannot process your request at this time"). I would be opposed to an online web-based forum or blog-type forum for reasons previously stated by others and the relative slowness of having to download a separate webpage each time a window is changed. Email is so much faster and convenient.
Also, I suspect at least a few on either/both DX-NEWS or DX-CHAT are using Blackberries or text-only PDAs which are or may be incapable of downloading/uploading webpages. At 11:07 -0500 06/12/2004, Peter Dougherty wrote: >At 10:10 06-12-04, Urb LeJeune wrote: > >>A web-based alternative may not be ideal but is it worse then no list at all? > >Perhaps until a different more "human-based" e-mail reflector host is found, >why not just migrate to a ubiquitous Yahoo group? While I'm no real Yahoo fan, >they are mostly effective and somewhat ideally suited for groups like ours. >Digest format is available as are individual e-mails, full list maintenance, >etc. What's more, their service offers a calendar, a file storage area, >database, etc. > >Again, not ideal (it blocks e-mail addresses and has some on-line >advertising), but certainly a usable option. I'm on over 40 of these for other >hobbies and professionally and I'm generally pretty happy with them. > >I subscribe to another e-mail list and I'll ask the listmoms if there's space >for these two lists, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. -- 73 de Fred K2FRD, VO2FS http://homepage.mac.com/k2frd/K2FRD.html Free Subscription To OCARG EAGLE, a newsletter for ham radio Scouters http://homepage.mac.com/k2frd/ocarg.htm for info. Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
