The problem with egroups is the commercial. Evem if I put in my digital signature it will break in and make the digital signature broken. Listar doesn't break into if there's a signature. Noam Meltzer Ira Abramov wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > As for a web interface - I guess it's pointless to mention the name > > eGr???s again, so I won't... > > why not? I've shouted "egroups" here far too many times. I was ignored, > but nobody objected either. > > ok, I say we start it as a test. right now we have an archive that is > open to harvesters, and a listar manager that changes every few > months. moving to Egroups will give us: > > * spam protected web archives > * choice of reading online, in Email, full digests or header digests > * polls > * chat room for online meetings > * calendar of events, and other cool features too many to list here > * remote management can be delegated dynamicly to any group member > * better return time of messages from the list (Listar shortened > majordomo's response time from hours to minutes, Egroups takes usually > only seconds) > > I can tell you I have been using their service for over 2 years now very > happily. I don't mind even donating the monthly $5 it costs to keep the > ads away. I don't get any spam through them either. > > what say you? vote with your fingers! add yourselves here to test it: > > http://www.egroups.com/group/iglu/ > > if we have a mass of over half the list (how many subscribers do we > have, Ely?) move over, I think we can declare it official. any of the > frequent posters wanting manager rights just has to ask me, this is how > a community should work! > > > Back to the original topic - There are some mailing lists with nntp > > interface. From the little I know - not all of them are filled with spam. > > Is it because of some brutal filtering methods , or very active list > > managers? > > or it never leaves one specific nntp server and doesn't get to nntp > servers viewed by spammers... > > > As for me personally - using no filters what so ever, I have only recived > > very few spam messages, and I don't exactly hide my email. But then again > > - I'm not a very active poster. > > I am, and believe me it hurts. I filter hard and mercilessly, and I > still get 10-12 a day. > > so again, please check out: > http://www.egroups.com/group/iglu/ > > we can set it up as a sublist of huji's but I think it will prevent us > from using all the creative management features. > > -- > Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast > "[In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I > thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less > abusive.')" > (By Matt Welsh) > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il
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