Re: [epub] Yahoo!'s Pending Acquisition of eGroups

["Geof F. Morris, Chief Editor, TOTK.com Sports" <gmorris@xxxxxxxx>]

At 02:36 PM 6/28/00, Todd Kellner wrote:
 >The big news of the day has to be the eGroups acquisition.
 >If you haven't yet read the news, go here:
 >http://List-News.com/articles/00june/20000628.html
 >
 >This is obviously big news in business terms, especially within
 >the email industry, but I'm curious -- I know many of you use
 >eGroups to host your list (not to mention EPUB itself) -- what
 >kind of repercussions do you foresee? Business as usual? Or bumps
 >along the road?

	Well, I must say that I was surprised and somewhat frustrated.  The 
eGroups acquisition of ONEList drove us off of there and onto another 
list-hosting routine.  I don't run my ezine through eGroups, but I do run 
some other things (more in the spirit of what eGroups seems to be run at, 
community building and informational awareness) with my third major 
endeavor, being SGA Executive Vice-President at The University of Alabama 
in Huntsville.  (No, I don't like sleeping.  I do the Web site, too -- if 
you want, it's http://sga.uah.edu/ and also VERY under construction.)  I'm 
worried about what will happen with that, and I'm very glad that I'm moving 
to Mailman soon enough for list management.

	-sigh-  I don't think Yahoo is going to screw up eGroups much -- they try 
to maintain the companies' paths that they acquire -- but I'm probably 
moving my list off of there.  Perhaps it's just because I'm a control 
freak, or that I've found something better for the same price (Mailman is 
free, but it requires Linux knowledge -- but hey, it's open source and 
continually improving and looking for user input), but . . . glad I had my 
plans in place, I guess.

	Back to Web work.  That Web site needs more stuff . . .

	GFM
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