Another Option for Homeless Nauvoodles

nitasmile · Senior Member

Another Option for Homeless Nauvoodles

arbilad · Head Chef

Linking to Bountiful on your Yahoo group is a good idea. If you want to post a link to Bountiful, but you don't run the list or forum, it is simple courtesy to ask permission first.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Very Cool, Nita. So is this just an email group? I'm not familiar with Yahoo Groups.

--Ray

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

You know... email groups are fine, but they just aren't as convenient as forums for staying up to date... I am not particularly partial to yahoo... their whole presence irritates me... They are TOO intrusive in my book.

For years our family had a group at Ancestry, but I didn't care for the format, and a few years ago we switched to a Gmail group still, I miss the forum setup with topics and "recent posts"... I have been looking at options to do something private in the forum realm. Andrew's set up that he has done for displaced Nauvoodles has really intrigued me... Its got a lot of pluses actually there are some advantages to the layout in this forum world too and the prices are reasonable. Extended family communication is a major part of my lifestyle many in my family are willing to share the cost, the uncles, aunts and cousins get into the mix too, so its a pretty good sized group.

nitasmile · Senior Member

rayb wrote:

So is this just an email group? I'm not familiar with Yahoo Groups.

--Ray

Hi Ray- basically it is a email group. You can sign up to get individual emails. Or you can read the messages "on the home page". Others receive messages by daily digest. To register, one creates a user name and a password.

The problem is the plethora of messages that can result. For example, I'm on a primary page yahoo group that sometimes has had dozens of messages a day. So I changed my personal setting so I only read the messages on the home page.

If one reads the messages on the home page, you can either read them in the actual order (ie individual message) or by group topic (all posts from a thread together). Other wise, if you don't read it by group topic, all posts from all topics can "run together", in the order in which they were received.

there are problems and annoyances w/these groups. Messages don't always post promptly. Also like Quid said at Andrew's site, the threads can be hard to follow due to the order in which posts are received.

That type of format is really best for groups that have only a few key threads. These yahoo groups are used (unofficially)in single land to communicate activities, etc.

Still, there is a lot of good w/them- you can post pictures, links, add folders,etc.

And I wasn't paid to say any of this!! :)