RE: Yahoo Groups (Yes again sorry but this has to be said)

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Ken,

I think you've put your finger on it - Yahoo! does what we want, poorly,
but for FREE.

While there patently ARE alternatives that would do all we needed, and
more, then all cost money.

Perhaps the best solution is for a firm to offer to sponsor such a service.
The ideal firm would be a hosting / Internet company which had gotten a lot
of business from the UKHA community :-)

Regards,

Mark

      -----Original Message----- 
      From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kwatt@xxxxxxx]
      Sent: Thu 28/11/2002 11:31 
      To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx 
      Cc: 
      Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Yahoo Groups (Yes
again sorry but this has to be said)
      
      

      This debate has been had before time and
again, over and over and the
      simple truth is that for all the complaints
about Yahoo there is no
      viable alternative to the services offered.
Some people want web based,
      some want email and it always seems that if
you are prepared to use one
      you either vehemently dislike or refuse to
use the other!
      
      Yahoo is the only option we have at the
moment to have the features and
      options that we do currently and whilst I
acknowledge that there may
      well be other means out there, none seem to
offer what Yahoo does for no
      cost. IIRC, we held a poll on this a long
time ago and there was
      practically no interest in members donating
to the cost of developing
      and running a private list, so there you
have it.
      
      If you have any suggestions or alternatives
to Yahoo's service that are
      fully operational and working I'm sure
everyone would be interested in
      seeing it.
      
      Now, a lot of measures have been put in
place over the recent months to
      address many of the concerns that people
voiced about Yahoo, the
      addition of the moderators and the change to
plain text mail/chopping of
      attachments being the ones that spring
immediately to mind. This may not
      address all the concerns but I consider it
an improvement and we have
      had a lot less moaning about Yahoo's service
and the list in general
      since they were implemented.
      
      Yes, mail is sometimes slow, so what? UKHA
mail is hardly life or death,
      it's not crucial to life on the planet
although sometimes you would
      think so the way that Yahoo is attacked. It
all goes back to the old
      adage "you can't please all the people
all the time"!
      
      Even after all that, every service will
suffer from downtime and/or
      hiccups for whatever reason at some point so
I think it is grossly
      unfair to have a go at Yahoo for the odd
blip we get in the service,
      especially given that it is a free service.
I realise that some peoples
      have experienced protracted delays in
receiving mail but it is only a
      temporary situation I'm sure and, yes, it
has happened to me as well!
      
      In short, for what we get based on what we
pay then I would have to say
      that Yahoo is a superb service.
      
      K.
      
      
      
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