--- Michelle Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for onelist, I've only once seen a problem with > it so far. I'm more > concerned with being able to have reasonable > moderation that a perfect > server, myself, and perfect servers don't exist > anyway. I believe our > list also has a message number cap, so if your > emergency occurs on a > busy day, you'd be out of luck anyway. We can look > around for an > alternate server to onelist, though. > > Unless Julian (or whoever) can somehow persuade > Shelly to give him > moderator status at rice, and I doubt it. > > Michelle > Flutist > ################################################# Hi Michelle: Several months ago, while conducting research for an alternative server for ChinMail, I discovered that, in addition to ONEList <http://www.onelist.com>, the other major free mailing list servers are: Topica <http://www.topica.com> Listbot <http://www.listbot.com> CoolList <http://www.coollist.com> eGroups <http://www.egroups.com> I was not impressed by either CoolList or ListBot as they seemed to be rather rudimentary services [at that time]. Topica had, until its interface was drastically revamped a couple weeks ago, major problems navigating about its web site in order to set/change list controls. eGroups also seems to have some techincal difficulties as I have been receiving the same message daily for the past several weeks. Overall, I found ONEList to be the most reliable, although for a FREE service, it is perhaps too much to expect it to be perfect. Ironically, eGroups and ONEList are merging. I can only hope that eGroups adopts ONEList's mail server technology and not vice versa. However, the nice thing about most of these services is the ability of the list owner(s) to have several moderators and to change them on short notice. ===== *********************************************** *********************************************** ** ttfn, The Gerbil Man ** ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** *********************************************** *********************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
