Dont changre without letting me kow as i have just found u all.
Sit dreaming about sitting around in the evenings (with log fires and
hot punch!)with like minded souls and not feeling threatened about
showing ones true feeling

Sam




--- In ecc-public-discuss@..., "dave_alan_edwards"
<dave.a.edwards@n...> wrote:
> It would be really good to get some feedback on the following Frank:
>
> Will the "announcements list" mirror all announcements for ECC with
> this
> Topica one, and visa-versa.
> I realise that in the past I've pushed hard to try to get ECC to
use
> Yahoo,
> instead of but I also know that it doesn't suit everyone.
>
> One particular 'problem' that I've heard mentioned more than once
now
> is
> that since Yahoo took over Egroups, the advertising has become more
&
> more
> prolific, and often when one is 'off line' (not connected to the
> internet) &
> looking through ones messages, because of the Yahoo URL adverts,
your
> PC
> keeps attempting to connect to the internet to download the advert /
> banners.
>
> This doesn't pose much of a problem for those with permanent or
> broadband
> connections, but the majority (I presume) still use dial up modems
> and these
> adverts can be quite an irritation.
>
> When it was discussed (some time ago) about having more than one
ECC
> email
> group, I remember a few people expressing concern that an
> announcement might
> get posted to one mail group but not to another, and that some
people
> may
> miss out on some messages.
>
> I was wondering what you - and others - think about this, and if
> maybe the
> Topica site should remain the official ECC announcements email
group,
> and
> any others be 'themed' for people to join as they wish?
>
> What do people think?
>
> Dave.