I have a fair bit of experience moderating groups on Yahoo! Groups (I inherited all these groups from other moderators and am stuck with them as the communities that use them are unwilling to contemplate migrating to anything better). I find the spam recognition features capricious. The file management set up is annoying as well. I definitely would not recommend it for anything other than a social group that just wants to have a convenient group email system - and doesn't mind having the occasional member email labeled as spam for no good reason at all.
Rob On Nov 12, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Rob Lewis wrote: > Not really an expert on these things, but what about Yahoo? Used it a > few years ago and it seemed pretty good. > > On Nov 12, 5:43 am, Dirk Stoop <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Because Google Groups is slowly dropping features – and it wasn't that >> great to begin with – we'd like to eventually find a better place to >> host this mailing list / online forum. >> >> I'd like to ask all of you for suggestions about where to go. >> >> From my point of view (the company's and the moderator's) we'd need at >> least the following features: >> >> - Moderation for posts from new members (there's quite a bit of spam >> that would reach the group without this) >> - Ways to both view and respond to discussions on the web, as well as >> through email >> - Ability for members to upload files >> >> Beyond this it doesn't have to be super powerful, as long as it's easy >> for people to join, read and write to it, I think we've met our goals. >> >> We want this to be a place where people can talk about the app and >> related topics, help eachother and exchange experiences. Something >> like getsatisfaction.com (emphasis on feature requests, and voting) or >> tenderapp.com (emphasis on support tickets, not open discussion) would >> definitely not fit the bill. >> >> Any feedback, either suggestions for a good place or piece of software >> to run this on, or about requirements I didn't mention but you think >> should be part of the evaluation, is very welcome. >> >> Thanks! >> - Dirk >> >> the Versions team > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Versions" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en.
