"Not to put too fine an "edge" on this, but HOW do
you know that LISTSERV ignored them?"

a very tactful response.

however, TO put the fine edge on it, the inherent
difficulties that most listowners have experienced
with the aol interface and the idiosyncratic way it
bounces messages, handles lists responses etc. would
suggest to me it is NOT the platform to manage a list
from.

i would reiterate the suggestion of an earlier
respondent to get a fee account. (i have similar
reservations about hotmail, but i have never tried to
manage an account from there.)

i have used a yahoo account for years to address my
needs for list management, and with their new 100MB
mailbox limit, not counting spam towards that limit
etc., i would strongly advise you to look at this
option.

other benefit's include:

for multi-listowner lists make it an account to which
all listowners have access. then any listowner can
deal with list business as they (the listowners)
become available, without worrying about duplication,
vacation breaks etc.

freeing your personal account from the overburden that
sometimes accrues from list management.

ready access from almost any computer, almost
anywhere, firewall or not, since the messages never go
to your computer (unless you download an attachemt),
but are net based on yahoo's computers.

a real time protection against worms etc. if your list
allows attachments, to get the attachment you can
first use yahoo's scanners to check it, and they are
up to date scanners. (if you are at aunt jane's using
her computer to check the list, are you sure that
opening an attachment will not affect her computer?
what protection does she have in place? uhh, for her
computer... lol)

it can be set nomail, to avoid redundancy in reading
posts.

it can be used to admonish the list, without exposing
an indivdual list owner to abuse at their private
account.

in fact, there might be a model here for l-soft to
consider in future upgrades to give true listowner
flexibility via email vs. the more current trend
towards web-based management. (or a selling point,
since after all l-soft is a business.)

in fact, an l-soft sponsored email platform
exclusively for the use of listowners would not need
to be based on an upgrade, but would be fully backward
compatible for all versions. after all, it would just
be an email host site. spam filtering etc. could be
handled, and researched in an unprecedented way.

btw, i am not affiliated with yahoo in any way, except
to have an account there.

bill salmon



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