Digital BW, The Print

> From: Martin
> 
> Hello Paul D. DeRocco, .. Hey ho to all fans of a real forum.
> 
> Folks - this ain't funny anymore. Read on and hear what happened to me
> because this mailing list is so 20th century..
> 
> 1. When repling to a post, the whole text (yahoo info) gets copied. I feel
> like an editor watching out not to delete the wrong stuff.
> 
> 2. But now it comes : mails got bounced. I lost 16 messages!! My email
> address is at GMX, the largest provider in western Europe. Based 
> in Germany
> and top-notch. They know their craft.
> 
> And yet mails got bounced back - so Yahoo suspended messaging me.
> 
> Here's the reason that promted it:
> 
> http://faq.gmx.net/optionen/email/antispam/4.html
> 
> Don't ask me about it - I'm a visual photographer - not an editor with
> ASCII. I'm surely not an Internet professional.
> 
> The cool thing of a real forum would be that I could on travel for example
> follow up the talk with any ordinary browser - even on my PDA. 
> Yes I can set
> up some web mail, but it would not be Entourage with all its bells and
> whistles like labels and flags.
> 
> Just a thought - time will tell which camp had the most vision for the
> future.

Well, since you singled me out, I guess I have to answer.

You do realize, don't you, that you _can_ treat a Yahoo group as a forum, and use the web to access it? It may be a bit light on features, but it's there, and it works. You can read past messages, and search them for text.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...