Re: [Peugeot-L] Yahoo groups or this Peugeot-L sucks!!!!!!!!!!

Well then, maybe it's time to change the Peugeot-L to a forum? The way it is, the archive is useless, many good posts on technical issues dealing with Peugeot is in people's private inbox. Are Peugeot owners shy in genearal and don't want to post to the list? Is that why the settings are the way they are? Like I said before, this is a public discussion place. Call it what you want: List, not Forum. It is a public place. People should not be posting anything that is embarrasing. If so, it's a job for you, the administrator to intervene, censor or ban the individual.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:53:50 -0700, "Brian J White" <brian@bjwhite.net> said:
On> I'm one of the two admins...yes.
>
> I belong to about 12-15 mailing lists...(yes, Yahoogroups is a mailing
> list
> not a forum. The difference is that they allow you to post via their web
> interface as well)
>
> All but maybe 2 work like Peugeot-L. Mailing lists have commonly worked
> like this since I've been on the Internet in 1995. The method is
> simple.
>
> Only recently have mailing lists been commonly configured to have the
> reply
> header default to the mailing list and not to the author of the
> message. Mailing lists that do work this way though result in a lot of
> "sorry, didn't mean to reply to the entire list" mistakes that sometimes
> can be downright embarrassing or alerts and entire mailing list of an
> offer
> made on parts or whatever.
>
> I'd highly suggest using a real email client (POP3, SMTP) to post and
> receive messages. I don't know what Yahoo's interface looks like for
> posting and reading messages, but I guarantee that's a big problem with
> your poor user experience.
>
> At 12:18 2005-06-27, you wrote:
> >I do not have a sent items or outbox to go back to to retrieve what I
> >wrote, which is a big part of my frustration. I use the web to do the
> >postings to this list.
> >
> >As to what you think is correct for the forum settings, I, and many others
> >feel that it should default to reply to the list. Why? Because it is a
> >public discussion forum and not a private dating service.
> >
> >I belong to other discussion forums and none of them work like this list.
> >
> >Brian, are you the forum administrator by chance?
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: "Brian White" <brian@bjwhite.net>
> >Date: Monday, Jun 27, 2005 8:34 am
> >Subject: Re: [Peugeot-L] Yahoo groups or this Peugeot-L sucks!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >Come on people. This is a user training issue.
> >You want the reply to go to everyone, hit Reply-All. Just to the
> >sender? Reply.
> >
> >I don't know if it can get much simpler than that. This is how properly
> >configured mailing lists
> >behave. This one is configured as such. How many times must we dig this
> >topic up every time some
> >wanker forgets to hit Reply-All instead of Reply?
> >
> >All you have to do Firepiston is go to your Sent Items folder (or Outbox
> >depending on client) and
> >click on 'Resend' change the to: header to peugeot-l and wha-laa, it's
> >back on the list.
> >
> >These are simple solutions to what boils down to a non-issue.
> >
> >That being said, I do agree that Yahoo's search function sucks.
> >
> >
> >
> >---------- Original Message -----------
> >From: "firepiston" <firepiston@fastmail.fm>
> >To: peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:25:52 -0000
> >Subject: [Peugeot-L] Yahoo groups or this Peugeot-L sucks!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > > Rant: This is not the first time but I just answered a post and it
> > defaulted to sending to the individual instead of to the list AS IT
> > SHOULD. I waited and waited to make sure the post went through then
> > realized I did not click on reply to the list. WTF is it with Yahoo
> > Groups or the settings on this Peugeot-L anyway? Can't it be changed
> > to default to reply to the group? After all this IS a public
> > discussion forum and not some private dating service. The search
> > function is useless, it does not search the entire database, only a
> > small number of posts at a time. Is there a forum administrator? What
> > happened to Radu? Somebody please move this forum to a better host.
> >
> > Tony O, please post to the list what I sent to you inadvertantly. I'm
> > not going to type it all over again.
> >
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >------- End of Original Message -------
>
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