Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:32:09 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:47 AM 3/18/2005, Mike B. wrote:
>At 07:25 AM 3/18/05 -0800, Cathy Green wrote:
> >The nice thing about using a Yahoo group last year was
> >the chat room feature.  It allowed for virtual
> >meetings in real time.  It was useful.
>
>Won't IRC do that too?

Yes.  There are advantages to IRC but having used both I find Yahoo simpler
on several counts.

No one solution will make everyone happy; there are people who won't use
Yahoo and those who won't use this list, and all have what to them are
valid reasons.

I understand people's concerns about using Yahoo, and not only objected to
it but actively resisted when it was used last year.  I was wrong, and have
said so.  This is an option that works for most people, has an easy-to-use
way of holding chats, and allows people to easily upload and access files
and flyers.

At 10:08 AM 3/18/2005, Barry L. Newton wrote:

>I've done the following in hopes of making the system useful to all
>interested parties:
>
>1.  Anyone with internet access may post to:  capclave at yahoogroups.com.

(If this results in too much spam would you be willing to have an address
that would go to you, with you acting as the filter?  That's a lot of work,
and I may be borrowing trouble.)

>2.  There is now a proxy account signed on as a group member.  This account
>will receive all mail as plain text.  Anyone wishing to receive plain text
>mail can contact me and I'll add them to the forwarding on this
>account--which is handled outside of Yahoo!.  Yahoo!  will not need to know
>of your existence, except possibly as someone who has sent mail to a Yahoo!
>group.

I haven't tried it out yet but that sounds like a clean and simple
solution.  Thank you for coming up with it.

The only other option that I can see is for someone -- probably the
soon-to-be-overworked Barry -- to keep an eye on who is and is not
subscribed, and on the information flow so that he can send things that
they might need to know to their address.  It would sort of work but I
don't see it as the best option.

Elspeth