<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>You'd be surprised how many folks don't use the e-mail delivery option.</div><div><br></div><div>I could host a forum on the AstroPlanner web site, but (a) I hate forums (fora?), (b) I don't have the time to moderate and maintain the beast, (c) my response time would drop, since I wouldn't be able to access the forums, and (d) it wouldn't have an email option.</div><div><br></div><div>OTOH, I could start a mailing list (like this one), but (a) a lot of folks don't like it, are scared of spam, etc,, and (b) maintenance is a grind.</div><div><br></div><div>Yahoo Groups works just fine for me :^) Best of all worlds: forum + e-mail + digests + archives. Of course, if Yahoo becomes Microhoo then I might consider Google Groups instead :^)</div><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 23, 2008, at 23:59 , Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Hi from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Luxembourg</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">. Good to see you to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy; ">J</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">></span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Paul, are you planning to host your own list for AP, instead of Yahoo Groups?</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">As long as it delivers to my mailbox I don’t mind what system is used. Forum only stuff I rarely if ever visit. There are simply too many and it becomes a hassle to change website and log in every time. So, for example I rarely visit ACP, GRAS or RealBasic forums, amongst others. I know GRAS can send email, BUT it has the same subject line for every message (maybe it changed, but I haven’t been to the forum in months). RB, thankfully, kept a couple of lists going in addition to hosted forums (fora?) after much protest from its users.</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Regards</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Robin</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; "> </span></font></p><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 4pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">-----Original Message-----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:apbeta-bounces@lists.astroplanner.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">apbeta-bounces@lists.astroplanner.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:apbeta-bounces@lists.astroplanner.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:apbeta-bounces@lists.astroplanner.net</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>Paul Kemp<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>24 May 2008 08:25<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>AstroPlanner Beta Testers<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [APBeta] Patience...</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I'm here too from New Zealand.<br><br>I managed to sell my copy of Skytools today, as I have moved over fully to Astroplanner.<br><br>Paul, are you planning to host your own list for AP, instead of Yahoo Groups?<br><br>All the best.<br><br>Paul Kemp<br>13.1" f5 Reflector with Argo Navis & Paracorr<br>Auckland, New Zealand<br>36° 55' 09" South, 174° 43' 30" East<br><br>--- The Southern Sentinel ---<br><a href="http://www.southernsentinel.co.nz" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.southernsentinel.co.nz</a></span></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> </span></font></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>APBeta mailing list<br><a href="mailto:APBeta@lists.astroplanner.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">APBeta@lists.astroplanner.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>