and of course we can also contrast the relative levels of obnoxiousness between the respective list owners. Loran's level is at most zero, if not somewhere in the negative numbers, while the dude with the napolean complex who runs phonolist and electrola is off the scale in the other direction! or perhaps i should say "was" - we haven't seen anything from him in quite some time now, which is quite enjoyable. he lives/lived in NYC. why am i thinking of the Collyer brothers? On Dec 26, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Rich wrote: > Phono-L lives on a privately owned server. There are some hidden > problems with running your own > mailing list off of a private internet connection beyond the cost. > Loran spends a fair ammount of time > keeping this going. Yahoo is free. And you are indeed correct, it > is a large pain in the A**. Thee are > other public list servers that are not as obnoxious as Yahoo though. > > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:45:52 -0500, Douglas Houston wrote: > >> I've been registered in the Yahoo Electrola group for a couple of >> years now, and in general it's been > pretty quiet. There have been some good posts on it, but certainly > nothing like the Old Time Victrola > group or this one. Here of late, it's been as lively as a cemetery. > I'll admit that I often ignore it, but > there's a reason for me. The Yahoo groups have an obstacle as soon > as you try to log on: WHY AM I > BEING ASKED FOR MY PASSWORD?. As far as I can see, it's just an > obnoxious and unnecessary > obstacle to put up with, and if there are many like myself. they > just don't want to bother with it. This > site has no such obstacle, nor has old time Victrola, and all goes > just fine. I wonder if the owners of the > site could dump yahoo, and get onto a server like this one or like > Old Time Victrola. Seems like there > should be room for later phono stuff, but why put up with needless > roadblocks? Any thoughts out there? > > >> Douglas Houston >> cdh041 at earthlink.net >> EarthLink Revolves Around You. >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> Phono-L at oldcrank.org > >> Phono-L Archive >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > >> Phono-L RSS Feed >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/feed/index.rss > >> Support Phono-L >> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > Phono-L at oldcrank.org > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Phono-L RSS Feed > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/feed/index.rss > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank