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> Since Eric Rowe has retired from being this list's administrator,
> and Stephen Martin is looking for someone to run it in his place,
> what would people think about running this all through egroups?
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> It seems to work well enough for the Hero Wars groups.
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I'm personally against it. e-groups works well enough, but their archives are a pain - no way of getting a large bundle of old messages to read offline for example. Minor niggles.
The major reason for not going the e-groups route is that they may (indeed do) insist on controls that aren't acceptable. Adding adverts to every message is a minor inconvinience, but what happens if they quietly change their conditions such that they own copyright on everything - as Geocities did?
I'd rather see the list stay managed privately through majordomo, providing an acceptable owner can be found.
Cheers,
Graham
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