Re: Moving The List
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RAPIDEUPHORIA.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 17:53
Subject: Moving The List
> Chris Bensler set up a mailing list called EUforum
> at topica.com and he invited me to check it out.
> Over the past several days, I've tested all the features
> and it looks very good. It has an archive with searching,
> a Web interface for posting or viewing messages,
> plus the usual immediate, or digested e-mail distribution
> and posting. It has everything that this list has.
>
> I'd like to move this Euphoria list over to topica.
> It won't take any effort on anyone's part.
> I just have to import the list of e-mail addresses from
> this list into the topica list. You'll get a welcome
> message from topica giving you an easy way to
> opt out. If you do nothing (as I hope you will), you'll
> be left in, but of course you can unsubscribe
> at any time. A few subscribers to our current list have
> concealed e-mail addresses. They will have to
> subscribe to the new list by themselves.
>
> Why do I want to do this?
>
> 1. John Kinne at Miami U. is the current list owner.
> Most people assume that I'm the list owner, so I get
> lots of requests to unsubscribe or change settings etc.
> to which I have to compose a reply explaining what to do,
> to which the person replies saying "it still doesn't work" etc. etc.
> On topica I can unsubscribe someone, or change their
> settings, with a couple of mouse clicks.
>
> 2. In the past year we've had several occasions
> where someone is abusing the rest of us,
> and there's little we can do other than
> take a deep breath and hope he goes away.
> We also had viruses posted, cracked software etc.
> On topica I can suspend or remove someone with
> a mouse click. If he comes back, I can click again.
> I can immediately delete messages from the archive when they
> contain viruses, trojans etc. before others are infected.
> As Chris mentioned, it's a lot easier for me to get
> rid of someone than it is for them to get a new
> e-mail address and resubscribe.
> If things get really bad, I can click the
> topica list into moderation mode, where all posts
> would go through me (or someone else) first.
>
> 3. This list has a lot of people, and there are a lot
> of messages posted per day. If we choose to allow it,
> Topica will give RDS a *lot* of free advertising in
> exchange for 3-line text ads being inserted
> in some of our messages. These ads do not appear
> on the Web interface, only in e-mail messages.
> A rough calculation shows that this advertising
> would be 10x more significant to
> RDS than the LinkExchange banner on our main
> Web page. We can target our RDS ads to other
> programming-related lists on topica. I think we'd
> pick up a lot of new people. At any time, if the
> ads were not achieving much, we could opt out
> of the advertising system.
>
> There's no rush, but I'm prepared to
> move any time in the next few days. I can update
> the list server page with the topica instructions.
>
> If you want to view the "EUforum" Web interface it's at:
>
> http://www.topica.com/lists/EUforum
>
> If you want you can "Join the List" right away to test it,
> or simply "Read the List". As I said, I can automatically
> subscribe everyone.
>
> If you want to post messages via the Web interface,
> you'll have to register a name and password with topica.
> Anything else can be done without registering.
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
>
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