At 11:05 PM 4/18/99 +0800, you wrote:
>I've got to say I've been wondering this myself. After a bit of
>research, I'd say -- Time, Money and an ability to deal with
>complaints without going crazy.
Don't forget our husbands.
>
>I've really enjoyed this list over the past two years and I'll be
>sorry to see it go. Monica and Mary really did an excellent job and
>all the little extras -- links page, Who/Where List, Birthday Floss
>Clubs, Int'l Needle Pals, etc. made it all the more special.
These were all YOUR ideas and you helped keep it going.
>I've subscribed to various lists on www.onelist.com , receive a few
>messages and then after a few days -- nothing. When I get around to
>checking my status it says I've had an e-mail bounce and have to reset
>my mail to Normal. This is SO annoying. Of course, I haven't
>bothered sending an e-mail to find out why this keeps happening. This
>list has been so well maintained it just keeps ticking along and I can
>keep up with what everyone is doing without even thinking about it.
Bouncing emails. That is probably the largest time consuming task.
These HAVE to be taken care of. And if you think about it, this is
a big job. If there are just 5 people who have a full email every message
you sent to the list is sent back to the list owner! SO if there are 50
messages
in one day, then there are 250 messages back to the list administrator.
This is a LOT of email and one of the reasons we wanted you to stay on
topic and don't have all the "ME TOO" messages. Now imagine that
AOL is having email problems (again!) or Juno or Hotmail is down.
We have lots of folks on this list that use these services, so it is more
than 5 folks usually.
>There is another list I subscribe to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>It is not strictly cross stitch but covers all forms of needlework.
>It's actually a pretty quiet list but like [EMAIL PROTECTED] it
>just keeps on ticking. To subscribe send an e-mail to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the BODY of the message
>subscribe needlework OR subscribe needlework-digest
>
>Maybe we could all just move over there?
The biggest thing it takes to keep the list going is time.
Userhome is our host and the money is not the issue,
it is only about $5.00 a month. There are places that offer
free email list hosting, but the support from the userhome.com
folks is worth the effort.
It would be easier to just start a new list than go through all the stuff
to change it. I will not have time in the next two weeks to get the
paperwork changed and the contract the Beakers had with them
is up at the end of the month.
All this support is why it is such a hard decision. I will miss all of you
too.
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