Murli Nagasundaram wrote: > All, > > I have been using the commercial facility egroups.com to run a couple of > lists on a test basis, and am quite impressed with it. I'd like your > opinion on whether we should switch to it from our present listserv. I am > considering the switch because of some recurring problems and limitations > of the present system that I am seeing both from feedback from Listmembers > and from my inability to respond adequately to requests. > > Egroups has the following advantages: > > 1. It's free. > 2. It automatically archives messages which can be retrieved from the > website without first dislocating your shoulder. > 3. Messages can be viewed both in chronological and "threaded" form <by > subject line>. > 4. The website lets you store files. You can also list useful web links, > maintain databases of information and an event calendar (which notifies you > when the event becomes due). > 5. You can run polls (useful esp. when you have poetry contests, I guess!) > 6. It is easy to assign multiple moderators or owners of the list. > 7. You have the option of reading messages only at the website without > receiving email messages. > > Egroups has the following disadvantage (as far as I know): > > 1. Every message comes appended with a little advertisement. It is not > very intrusive though, and easy to ignore. > > Our present listserv is free, and has no ads. It has none of the other > advantages of egroups. If you have any thoughts on this subject do air > them. If there are no objections, I will arrange to switch the list to > egroups. > > Cheers, > > Murli > List-DemiDei
Dear List-DemiDei, otherwise known as Murli-- Two other lists I subscribe to are on egroups and seem to work fine. So I suggest you go for it! Thanks for your work on this. --BJ
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