Re: More information about Yahoogroups

Dallas Patterson wrote in part:

> You see...we've been using the mailist since the beginning without
> signing up for any passwords or any of the other embellishments from
> One-list, e-Groups, or Yahoo! Last night I tried just as an 
experiment
> to see the involuntary survey for personal information being 
discussed
> with concern on iris-talk. That didn't work. The conversion wizard
> cryptically announced that my e-mail address wasn't found...and 
returned
> me right back to the conversion wizard for a repeat of the same sad
> routine. Oh well.
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I am hearing you. At this juncture, I have taken a wait and see (and 
hope) stance. I am writing this from the Yahoogroups site inside our
Sibrob pages since my damnable operamail.com is down....

I don't think there could have been any way to access the web pages  
even on One-list without a password of your own choosing. When one 
subscribed to the various email lists it was necessary. There is no 
other way to subscribe without a password.

It is true that to access the Yahoogroups site now, one needs a Yahoo
ID with that comes a registration for Yahoo with the usual form and 
questions. I wish it wasn't necessary but that is where we are. I am 
still searching for other vehicles BUT the three others in the
running 
all have their own problems...some cost $$$$$ which I frankly abhor 
and can't afford. One other is down half the time (I subscribed to a 
number of lists and it was very iffy). Topica is definitely out. Hort 
net was a possibility but I found some problems that I choose not to 
go into here...we all like having photos in the Sibrob,etc. 

This massive mail list site (Yahoogroups) is not perfect but it is 
powerful and flanked by knowledgeable people experienced in running 
hundreds of thousands of mail lists and being able to deliver and
some 
of the egroups personnel and even some of the one-list people are
part 
of the Yahoogroups staff. I deal only with Brandon Long from eGroups 
finding the Yahoo people during the merger discussions not as
helpful. 

I am not a fan of Yahoo but have had an address there for years and 
each of my family has accounts there so I found the conversion-merge
a 
15 second procedure. Having a web mail account does also have 
advantages. Any place where there is an online connection, you can 
read your mail. I did that at one of the conventions reading
iris-talk 
and sibrob mail in Oklahoma.

It is a sad fact but anything you write on the internet is stored 
somewhere and accessible. I did a search on Google with just my name 
and found things that surprised me like one little comment that I
made 
years ago popped up re dogs. There was more re iris. So we broadcast 
to the world, unfortunately.

I will be in touch with John Jones and send him a copy of your post.

Regards,

Ellen Gallagher (who is in the process of changing her Sibrob address
    and won't clog up your e


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