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From: "Valorie Zimmerman" <>
Subject: Re: [LO] email software madness - technical explanation
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:31:38 -0800
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Michael Carroll <> wrote:
> Plain Text underutilizes our computing capabilities, while RTF/HTML carries
> too much risk. So we should abandon the mailing list model altogether, and
> move to a web-based message board model like the one used so effectively by
> for example RootsChat.
>
> Mike Carroll

Hey Mike -- you have a Message Board alternative right here at
Rootsweb/Ancestry. While my first love is RW lists, I feel our MBs are
the best out there also, because they have administrators. Unadminned
boards usually become clogged with spam so quickly they are pretty
much useless.

And in my opinion, we have the best of both worlds, because we can
choose to gateway the boards to our lists, if we think that's the best
thing for our list members.

Valorie
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