Re: [CR] Change in hosting for Classic Rendezvous email list

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:22:59 -0800
From: "Jim Merz" <jameshmerz@gmail.com>
To: Alex Wetmore <alex@phred.org>
Cc: "oroboyz@aol.com" <oroboyz@aol.com>, "Classicrendezvous@Bikelist.Org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Change in hosting for Classic Rendezvous email list


I just looked at the framebuilders on Google Groups. It looks a lot like Gmail, but should be easier to use than this current email system.

Snow on the ground here, still coming down.

Jim Merz Big Sur CA

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Alex Wetmore <alex@phred.org> wrote:
> I just wanted to add a couple of things to Dale's email.
>
> 1) Google Groups does have a digest mode. They even have a better digest
> mode than what bikelist.org offers, you can choose to get all of the
> emails (Digest Email), or just get links to the emails that are in their
> archives (Abridged Email).
>
> Here are the options:
> No Email - read this group on the web
> Email - send each message as it arrives
> Abridged Email - send a summary of new activity each day
> Digest Email - send all new messages in a single daily email
>
> 2) Google has good archiving, and the archives at
> http://search.bikelist.org aren't going anywhere and will continue to get
> new emails.
>
> Sadly I can't do anything about the ads in the Google archives. I can
> continue to provide my own archives that are ad free however.

>

> alex