Yahoogroups to go live

[SteveColes]

Alright, it looks to me as though yahoogroups is going to fill our needs:eusa_danc

But first, a few points. Yahoo intended this type of group to used as a "mailing list". We are not going to use it that way. What I know now is that posting to the group is not fast enough reliably. Yes, some posts get there in a few minutes, but some take several hours, there is no guarantee.

But, messages posted on their website are immediately visible and the email goes out to the members immediately. So we are going to use it as a one way system. Any messages to be posted must be posted at the site, not through email.

This group will be only used for site down notification and coordination. NOTHING ELSE! I am going to delete all messages and the message list must stay empty until it is used for site down notification the first time.

The message count that you will see is NOT the count of messages currently on the board, but the count that has ever been sent, so it will not go back to zero. Don't let that confuse you.

Consider the board "live" from this point on. I will be posting the site outage procedure shortly.

Thanks

 

[Steve D]

cool by me

 

[McRabbet]

Glad to hear that the bugs got ironed out. Look forward to never hearing from it, but we'll know if we do! Get the instructions out before then, please...:lol:

 

[DaveO]

AYE, AYE Captain!

Dave

 

[D L Ames]

roger doger Papa Steve.:icon_thum Once you post the hoster notification procedures (step-by step I hope) I will print them out and leave them by the computer.

D L

 

[mshel]

OKIDOKEY :rolf:

 

[clowman]

Make it So! Engage! Warp speed adhead! ( Ok, I'm a trekie)

 

[cskipper]

Great.

Now we know how to know if someone else knows the site is down, but do we know who to contact? Previous posts said the hoster - but who is that and how do we contact him/her? Do we try to contact you first? I think it was decided that the first person to notice it being down makes that contact, correct?

I apologize if you've already posted all this - I just saw this and am kind of in a hurry this a.m. so I can't research it in the forum. If it's there just tell me to read it and the name of the thread.

 

[SteveColes]

It's not there yet, I'm typing as fast as I can:lol:

 

[cskipper]

I wasn't sure if I just missed it somewhere.