Jan,
Sorry but we feel that paying Yahoo is a bad idea and would like to keep the
list as it is. We also had an idea that we would like to run past the list.
Since you are right about the small space that Yahoo gives us for our
archives we would like to find a volunteer to take all the archives, go
though them, delete the unusable stuff and then put the good message's on the
BRHS web site, that way we could save our archives without paying Yahoo. This
would be a large job and would require a person with a lot of time. Dave and
I would appreciate any comments any one would like to make.
Thanks
Dave Lotz
BRHSlist owner
John Lee
BRHSlist Moderator
> I am an admin for several Yahoo groups lists, and have a question for the
> moderator(s) as well as somewhat in general.
>
> I know Yahoo sent out a poll awhile back to see if group owners would be
> interested in upgrading their list to something better where the messages
> could be archived and downloaded and such, plus other features.
>
> Would the moderator be interested in doing that with this list? I don't
> know about everyone else, but I'd be willing to pay few bucks a year to
> have a searchable archive of all the BRHS messages. At the moment it's
> rather unfortunate as I'm sure there's tons of information in the thousands
> of messages in the BRHS short history, but it's very difficult to find
> anything by going back month-by-month.
>
> I'm not trying to make a big fuss, just saying that *I* would be interested
> in that, if nobody else is interested, I'll just shut up... :) I'm also
> somewhat volunteering to help foot some of the expense to keep the list
> free
> for those people who don't want to pay for such a service.
>
> I guess the one other thing I'm wondering about is the fact that if you get
> close to your free group limit (20 meg?), what does Yahoo start doing with
> the messages? Dump them? If so, I'd really hate to lose any of the
> expertise that has been shown here...
>
> Jan Kohl
>
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