Monday, May 05, 2008

New Google Group Coming

I'm setting up a new message board/e-mail list for us on Google groups.

For the past year or so, I've been sending announcements by regular e-mail, with all your addresses in BCC. (You're not supposed to put the addresses under To, because then everybody sees all the e-mail addresses - there's no privacy.) But now when I do that, AOL is refusing to deliver e-mail to any of its members.

So it was either rebuild a Yahoo Group - with its slow delivery and advertising in the messages - or try a new system.

We will have a homepage also, where you can go to post or read messages. See below.

When you receive the first e-mail from the Google Group, I suggest putting its e-mail address in your address book, and the Web page in your bookmarks.

This should be pretty easy to use. More instructions will follow. If you ever have trouble, you can e-mail me directly.

Update: Google Group Canceled. I put in 39 e-mail addresses to start it, Google said they'd have to review it and get back to me. They never did. What I crock. They have groups with thousands of members. Maybe it just went Fubar. Anyhoo, I'll have to rebuild our old Yahoo Group.

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