From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:13:45 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:21 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave

> Most Remarkably, Eric Jablow wrote:
>
> >How hard is it to set up a small mailing list on one of our own
> >computers?
> >
> >Respectfully,
> >Eric Jablow
>
> The Yahoo! group is built and in service.  It is providing a free,
> web-based location where useful files are already being maintained,
> accessible to any member, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  It is providing
a
> central calendar, accessible to any member, where to-do items are
starting
> to appear.  It provides a mailing list service.  Individual members can
> specifiy their mail preferences, including plain text.  It is currently
> open to anyone who wants to join, with or without invitation, though the
> invitations make it more convenient for people with graphical web
> browsers.  I am cheerfully willing to assist anyone who finds the
interface
> confusing or difficult.
>
> There may be occasional items we would not want broadcast to the
> world.  Those are best kept off the internet altogether, or at least
> limited to individual emails, as opposed to anybody's listserve.

It is simple enough for you, as list-owner, to make this list private and
invitation-only.  That will make posts inaccessible to non-list-members.

> The thing is done.  The year is 2005.  The technology is standard.  There
> is no point in wasting time to do it over.  Let's move on.

I'm on dozens of Yahoo Groups -- both fannish and non-SF (mostly music) --
both open and private, and I've had no problems with them.   There's also
Topica....

--Ted White