Changing the charter might be a good way to go. It should expand the membership I would think.
Rich On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:03:36 -0800, Loran Hughes wrote: >It boils down to how the group was set up... yahoo group owners can >set their sites to "private", allowing only members of the group to >view the posts. We're a bit more open minded here. >I'm willing to either a) change Phono-L's charter to allow phono >discussions from any time period or b) set up an exclusive list for >such discussions. >Comments? >Loran >On Dec 26, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Douglas Houston wrote: >> I've been registered in the Yahoo Electrola group for a couple of >> years now, and in general it's been pretty quiet. There have been >> some good posts on it, but certainly nothing like the Old Time >> Victrola group or this one. Here of late, it's been as lively as a >> cemetery. I'll admit that I often ignore it, but there's a reason >> for me. The Yahoo groups have an obstacle as soon as you try to log >> on: WHY AM I BEING ASKED FOR MY PASSWORD?. As far as I can see, >> it's just an obnoxious and unnecessary obstacle to put up with, and >> if there are many like myself. they just don't want to bother with >> it. This site has no such obstacle, nor has old time Victrola, and >> all goes just fine. I wonder if the owners of the site could dump >> yahoo, and get onto a server like this one or like Old Time >> Victrola. Seems like there should be room for later phono stuff, >> but why put up with needless roadblocks? Any thoughts out there? >> >> >> Douglas Houston >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >Phono-L@oldcrank.org >Phono-L Archive >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >Phono-L RSS Feed >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/feed/index.rss >Support Phono-L >http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
