Re: Moving The List
- Posted by Aku <aku at inbox.as>
Jan 26, 2001
I like the digest mode of current list (muohio.edu)
it packed emails in a email but without modification of the emails.
I just double click the digest email and emails come up, with
attachment still exist.
Not like egrops which modify the emails. I have not tried on topica.
So I prefer this list.
(sorry if my english is bad)
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R> Chris Bensler set up a mailing list called EUforum
R> at topica.com and he invited me to check it out.
R> Over the past several days, I've tested all the features
R> and it looks very good. It has an archive with searching,
R> a Web interface for posting or viewing messages,
R> plus the usual immediate, or digested e-mail distribution
R> and posting. It has everything that this list has.
R> I'd like to move this Euphoria list over to topica.
R> It won't take any effort on anyone's part.
R> I just have to import the list of e-mail addresses from
R> this list into the topica list. You'll get a welcome
R> message from topica giving you an easy way to
R> opt out. If you do nothing (as I hope you will), you'll
R> be left in, but of course you can unsubscribe
R> at any time. A few subscribers to our current list have
R> concealed e-mail addresses. They will have to
R> subscribe to the new list by themselves.
R> Why do I want to do this?
R> 1. John Kinne at Miami U. is the current list owner.
R> Most people assume that I'm the list owner, so I get
R> lots of requests to unsubscribe or change settings etc.
R> to which I have to compose a reply explaining what to do,
R> to which the person replies saying "it still doesn't work" etc. etc.
R> On topica I can unsubscribe someone, or change their
R> settings, with a couple of mouse clicks.
R> 2. In the past year we've had several occasions
R> where someone is abusing the rest of us,
R> and there's little we can do other than
R> take a deep breath and hope he goes away.
R> We also had viruses posted, cracked software etc.
R> On topica I can suspend or remove someone with
R> a mouse click. If he comes back, I can click again.
R> I can immediately delete messages from the archive when they
R> contain viruses, trojans etc. before others are infected.
R> As Chris mentioned, it's a lot easier for me to get
R> rid of someone than it is for them to get a new
R> e-mail address and resubscribe.
R> If things get really bad, I can click the
R> topica list into moderation mode, where all posts
R> would go through me (or someone else) first.
R> 3. This list has a lot of people, and there are a lot
R> of messages posted per day. If we choose to allow it,
R> Topica will give RDS a *lot* of free advertising in
R> exchange for 3-line text ads being inserted
R> in some of our messages. These ads do not appear
R> on the Web interface, only in e-mail messages.
R> A rough calculation shows that this advertising
R> would be 10x more significant to
R> RDS than the LinkExchange banner on our main
R> Web page. We can target our RDS ads to other
R> programming-related lists on topica. I think we'd
R> pick up a lot of new people. At any time, if the
R> ads were not achieving much, we could opt out
R> of the advertising system.
R> There's no rush, but I'm prepared to
R> move any time in the next few days. I can update
R> the list server page with the topica instructions.
R> If you want to view the "EUforum" Web interface it's at:
R> http://www.topica.com/lists/EUforum
R> If you want you can "Join the List" right away to test it,
R> or simply "Read the List". As I said, I can automatically
R> subscribe everyone.
R> If you want to post messages via the Web interface,
R> you'll have to register a name and password with topica.
R> Anything else can be done without registering.
R> Regards,
R> Rob Craig
R> Rapid Deployment Software
R> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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