Tony, I am not for splintering the group up at all. All I was asking
for was the ability to (when I click "reply" as I'm reading this list
on the web), that the reply defaults to "reply to the list". Either
make it user selectable or make it global setting. Either this is
technically not possible, which I find hard to believe, or someone
wants it the way it is. I just checked 3 other yahoo groups I belong
to, and they all have the default setting of "reply to the list". I'd
bet a very high percentage of Yahoo groups do not have this nonsense
setting as our list. Why is this list so odd? It makes no sense for a
public list to have a default setting of "reply to the author", which
promotes off list discussions rather than on list, and causes other
problems for people who use the web to reply to this list.
- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, Tony O <bonesinsc@g...> wrote:
> Few quick points and I will try to be more brief this time..
> oh before I forget thanks for the supportive comments about my argument.
>
> I would have to agree with you that hosting on Yahoo is pretty bad,
> but it's free, so what do you expect? I wish it were as simple as
> just moving the list to another host, but what you have to realize is
> as long as there is a list on yahoo, no matter where you move the new
> list to, you are splintering the group unless you can shutdown this
> group at the same time. For example, when I bought my peugeot, I did
> a quick google search for peugeot discussion forum/list and this is
> what came up. If there is an *additional* list then there will still
> be splintering and newbies who have no idea which is the *real* list.
>
> Steve, it appears that while there are others that have a small issue
> with the reply to function as setup, this doesn't seem widespread.
> Ditto for those who use the webinterface. You are asking for a
> drastic and possibly very detrimental change to accomodate a rather
> small group. Just being honest here, no personal ill will meant. I
> understand your comments about the better forums, emailing you with
> replies to threads of interest, but the problem is still the same.
> You have to initiate that by surfing to the forums, then selecting the
> threads, etc. This is much more work than just deleting the emails
> you don't want and reading those you do.
>
> My suggestion and this goes for others as well....why not signup for a
> peugeot only email address like gmail or something. That's what I
> did. Gmail also threads conversations (making it easier to follow and
> delete whole threads at a time) and you will never run out of space.
> Here's my offer, I will happily sign up the first 10 or so people who
> would like a gmail address for the peugeot list. What you will then
> have to do is make the same offer to people on this list (you get like
> 50 signups) so we should be able to cover anyone who is interested.
> If anyone wants one, email me here with the subject "gmail request
> please".
>
> After I get ten I will post offer closed and the new signups can take
> start their offers.
>
> thanks for playing...
> -Tony
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