Rachel, I took the "libery" of "crossposting" this to both lists (because I
can. :-{))
I joined the yahoo groups list in a fit of pique, I have to admit, but that
was before I saw Rich Hintz' and Steve Sullivan's rationale for the
moderation of the lists. That cooled me off a bit and I apologize to them
now for any thoughts I had, even though I never expressed them. :-{)
I'm sorry that edi-l has to end like this, and I hope nobody's going 'way
mad. However, the continuity of the list can continue with the yahoo groups
list, and I wanted to weigh in with my experiences.
I am a moderator of several groups and member of several more, and absent
the tagline you see after each of the posts, you will receive no ads at all.
I even have my in-laws signed up to this list as a convenience for emailing
people and I sure wouldn't want to expose my mother-in-law to any porno
ads...
As long as you exercise normal care of your address, you'll have no extra
spam. I have about 10 email 'personas' on the internet, that I use in
various ways to track whether or not any of them are 'spam generating.'
The two least spam-generating IDs are my yahoo groups ID (because all it is
is a link into the web interface of Yahoo groups) and my real POP mail ID,
since I don't give that to anybody.
You can rest easy, you shouldn't see any more spam because you got a Yahoo
ID for Yahoo Groups.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Foerster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 5:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Join the New EDI-L List at Yahoo! Groups
>
>
> Jim,
>
> I too am leery of Yahoo, although I did subscribe to the new
> EDI-L list -
> and today I succumbed and set up a Yahoo ID. The reason for
> my concern is
> that even yet today (after having been on the Internet and
> the web since
> early 1994) I have blessedly remained mostly free of spam and porno
> messages. My gut tells me this will probably not be the case
> with Yahoo.
>
> Your suggestion that DISA consider hosting a new EDI-L list is a good
> one......hello Alan Kotok or other DISA people on this list.
> What do you
> think? DISA already hosts other lists that support the work
> of many of the
> X12 subcommittees and their work groups plus the XML-EDI list. I would
> strongly support DISA hosing the new EDI-L list so that I can
> kill the Yahoo
> ids I've had to set up.
>
> Rachel Foerster
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> ---
>
> I enthusiastically agree with Rachel's message but can understand the
> decision to abandon support of the list.
>
> On behalf of the all the subscribers, I would like to ask for
> an extension
> of the deadline while we settle the question of where to go.
>
> I took Richard Druckenmiller's suggestion and tried
> subscribing to the Yahoo
> EDI-L group. Here's what I had to do:
>
> 1. establish a Yahoo user account - its free;
> requires a userid and
> password, you pick'em; user id clash resolution is ok.
> 2. establish a Yahoo email account - yeah, its a
> separate request;
> yahoo will suggest using the Yahoo user id but you don't have to.
> 3. subscribe to the EDI-L group
>
> This is all well and good but I want the EDI-L mail in a
> digest form, sent
> my company hosted email account. This requires me to
> 'convert' ( a Yahoo
> term ) my company email address. This process failed and I
> have started an
> email dialogue with the Yahoo techies....
>
> So, now I have yet another user id, password and email
> account added to an
> already too large list of personalized computing resources.
>
> Perhaps we can find another list server host that would be
> more interested
> in the topic. Perhaps DISA?
>
> Regards,
> James K. Werner
> The Boeing Company
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Richard Druckenmiller[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:28
> > Subject: Join the New EDI-L List at Yahoo! Groups
> >
> > In light of Richard Hintz's squeamish remarks I have taken
> the liberty
> > to invite you to join a new list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] - A
> > discussion list for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and related
> > business to business data interchange.
> >
> > It's time for this list to move on to 21st century anyhow
> where we have:
> > - Calendar to list specific events for your organization
> > - Message archive searches
> > - File upload capabilities for demo discussion and/or sharing
> > - Photo upload capabilities for discussion and/or sharing
> > - Bookmarks to list recommended websites
> > - Database where we can have phone books, lists, etc.
> > - Polls where we can ask the list to vote on topics for discussion
> > - Chat
> > - All of which is completely free
> >
> > You may join the list in a primitive fashion as you do this one by
> > simply emailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You do
> NOT need a
> > browser! You receive and send emails just like you do with
> this list.
> >
> > However, in order to take advantage of the features listed above you
> > will need to join formally using a browser at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/
> > for free to create a Yahoo! ID, but you are not required to
> this if you
> > just want to read and/or send the messages.
> >
> > The new list will not mirror [EMAIL PROTECTED] nor have any
> > affiliation with this [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Although the list is specifically for discussing EDI and
> related topics,
> > I have no specific guidelines for the list or restrictions
> on postings
> > other than you must abide by Yahoo!'s guidelines as listed at:
> > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> > I certainly will not get on your case for posting diatribes about
> > America's great tragedy. In fact I welcome them! We must
> work through
> > this together with friends, family, AND colleagues.
> >
> > Please join by simply emailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Thank you and sincerely,
> > --
> > Richard Druckenmiller
> > President
> > Information Development Technologies, Inc.
> >
>
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