A year or so ago, my contest club YCCC moved its reflector to Groups.io. Today my local club did the same. There are many advantages to this, perhaps the biggest being the ability to post attachments
As a comment, I am all for this "upgrade" yes sure I can see where abuse could happen, but i see the better and i think bigger picture of what this affords to us as readers and even casual readers.
Author: Danny K5CG via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
Groups.io has been wonderful. If you are not interested in a thread or topic (topics can have #tags) you can "mute" it. It saves having to read the follow on replies about a subject that either doesn
This is also easy to do in full-featured email clients like Thunderbird, which I have used for many years. It can sort in many ways. I sort on the From field, putting each of the 20 or so email refle
I use Thunderbird too. But I don't filter anything. I have a delete key and have never understood the handwringing about OT posts, etc. As to groups.io color me against. Wes N7WS On 8/23/2019 2:56
Author: Danny K5CG via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:26:52 -0700 (PDT)
If you aren't interested in a topic why receive an email about it at all? I get enough email every day so anything to reduce the clicks and deletes is a plus. A discussion group is not an email clien
Author: k7lxc--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 17:15:07 +0000 (UTC)
Howdy, TowerTalkians -- Yes, our MailMan is pretty primitive at this point. But I'm just a list administrator. There are several guys that actually run things; e.g. K5TR. I'll drop him a line an
My big gripe with groups.io is that it does not quote the message being replied to when using the web interface. There is a way to do it but it is not the default and it is not easy to find. What
Actually it is pretty easy. It took me a while to find out how though! On the Web interface for groups.io you can simple highlight with the mouse, click, hold pull down, etc what you want to quote
I read a half dozen groups.io groups, all with Thunderbird. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTa
You're asking to transform an email list into a forum. This dramatically changes the content and discourse, effecting the S/N ratio. Email is great as it allows well thought out and reasoned messages
I dare say that everyone on this list is also subscribed to a groups.io reflector, so they have "tried it". Also I suspect that many who clamor for a better web based presentation of their favorite d
No. Groups.io works just fine as an email reflector only. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.c
Well here's another vote for groups.io. As some have said it works just like any other email list reflector, for me that is through my Thunderbird email client which is running continuously, handles
I belong to three lists on groups.io I get the messages via email client but like the ability to log in via a web browser to search the list. Keeping list appropriate files handy is another feature I
I hope that the .io won't screw up my e-mails. I use Outlook and each e-mail I get is properly shuttled to the correct e-mail folder depending on who it is from. I had to have my grandson help me get
Author: k7lxc--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:12:42 +0000 (UTC)
Excuse my ignorance but I don't see the distinction between the two. The Mailman lists like this one all have administrators that can moderate the list which means that some stuff doesn't get po
Would you be able to migrate archives? I do not believe that is possible. I migrated a group from Yahoo to groups, and was able to, but that is a different beast. sent from my Note 8 ________________
To be clear, and to fold in with what Steve has stated, it was I who made the remark about ads and the such, yes i agree with Steve k7lxc a good part of what we often discuss is where to, or how much
As a Groups.io list owner SteppIR and others. There can be as much moderation as necessary and what is nice when a topic is closed for discussion it can actually be close and BS post that have noth