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Re: [amibroker] Re: Yahoo becoming too unreliable to maintain this group...???



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I, like Randy, rely entirely on email for viewing and submitting postings from/to the AB groups.  I have saved almost all 43,900+ going back to December of 2005.  Using Thunderbird, I can search the entire list, including words in the body of posts, in just a few seconds.  Searching by subject or author is even faster.  I cannot imagine anything more efficient.  As for the storage required for all those postings, who cares.  Disk space these days is freer than clean air.

I, too, have been upset with yahoo at times.  I presently subscribe to three small Google forums.  IMHO, they are a significantly better than the yahoo ones because:
   a) The postings are not polluted by cute little announcements regarding "RECENT ACTIVITY", etc..
   b) Line wraps are not added making long threads unreadable.
   c) I've never lost postings because of a 'Bounce' or other unexplainable reason.
However, from time to time.  I do get postings delivered a day or more late from the Google forums, just like the Yahoo ones.  I expect this may be a flaw with email in general and not necessarily the fault of either forum provider.

BTW, I noticed that vBulletin listed Yahoo data as "Tier 3", extremely difficult to transfer to vBulletin.  That may be a consideration for other providers as well.  (It wouldn't hinder me though, because I could continue to put all the new emails in the same mailboxes as I presently use for Yahoo groups.)
-- Keith

lucianomt wrote:

Randy, that was just an example. There are many mods that will accomplish exactly what you mentioned. Here are just a few more examples that I found, there are many more if you search some more:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1095015
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1484185&p=8842175&hilit=email+notification#p8842175

And if you demand a feature not covered by the pre-existing mods, there is an active community that could program it. The bottom line is you would not feel the difference using Gmail.

Obviously all of this takes a bit more work than an out-of-the-box solution like Yahoo, but a forum is way more efficient in keeping a shared knowledge base. Just think about all the valuable posts that are uncategorized and practically unsearchable in AB Yahoo and compare it to, say, the Tradestation forums.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com, Randy Harmelink <rharmelink@...> wrote:
>
> A digest would be unacceptable to me. I can't figure out why anyone would
> use them in the first place, unless they have an inferior email client.
> They make things WAY too hard to read. I currently get digests from several
> vBulletin boards because their RSS feeds only showed the latest message in a
> topic instead of all new messages. Neither method even comes close to my
> usage of Yahoo boards.
>
> The whole advantage of Yahoo is that each message comes directly to me as an
> email. My email client (GMail) can file them and group them into
> conversations as they come in. That's especially important to me because I
> currently follow well over 100 Yahoo groups. It also allows me to either
> reply directly or to go the Yahoo group and reply there.
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM, lucianomt <lucianomt@x..> wrote:
>
> > I agree that receiving new posts and threads is important, but with a bit
> > of tweaking it can be done. This is just one of many mods that accomplish
> > this:
> >
>
> > http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=187868
> >
> > Same for RSS.
>



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