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Re: [nafex] Time for a new host



I have also been unhappy with Yahoo since they took over this list.  
(Previously, I kind of liked Yahoo.)  I agree with Tom that we really 
ought to get the list on the NAFEX website, but if that's too difficult, 
I would be happy to move to a more user-friendly site.

Things I don't like about Yahoo hosting (that I'd like to avoid at a new 
site.)
Lots of personal questions to "create an account" before you can use the 
web-version
Gazillions of pop-up ads on the site
(I dislike these enough that I haven't used the web-site since shortly 
after we moved.)
recent threats to market to everyone they can touch
ads on each e-mail
non-text ads on e-mail that are slow to download
animated ads on e-mail that are slow to download and incredibly annoying
lack of service, and likelihood that the archives will go away

I'm not at all sure we can't find an ad-free home.  I know lots of 
special-interest sites hosted by someone who happens to share that 
interest.  Universities also host various groups for free.  But if it's 
easier to find a commercial host that requires ads, I am sure we can 
find a site that doesn't attach non-text ads to e-mails, and that 
doesn't ask too many nosy questions of "members".

Ginda

On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 11:30 PM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

> I was wondering how many of you got a message from Yahoo about changing
> policies.  I don't know the full extent of what they are doing, since I 
> have
> been unable to get into yahoo since they absorbed E-groups and Onelist 
> and
> messed up my membership so badly I'd have to get a new address for
> everything.  I started to rejoin with a new address one time, then 
> changed
> my mind and canceled.  Or so I thought.  I got that Yahoo message sent 
> to my
> other address, even though I supposedly had canceled it, and even 
> though I
> don't get any e-list mail to that address.
>     There is more, but the point is, I think Yahoo has reached the point
> where I, for one, would like to move the NAFEX list to a new host.  I've
> already started Interest Group e-lists, as well as two other unrelated
> lists, on Topica, and I am in contact with the owner of another hosting
> service as well.  So I have experience and contacts to shift the list 
> to a
> new host, if there is interest.  It would be simple to set it up (takes
> about 5 minutes or less) and we would continue with all the same people 
> in
> command - I have no desire to "own" another list.  I'm just tired of the
> mess I've had with Yahoo.
>     What do you all say?
> -Lon Rombough
>
>
>
>
>
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