Hey all,

As a mingw32 user and a long-time member of the engineering team here
at eGroups, I figured I'd speak up and say hello.

On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:48:59AM +0900, Paul Selormey wrote:
> How come this never came with the banner? Some tricks there?

Sometimes there is no banner ad to serve so you just get lucky.

> Surely the natural progression of any large organization is to bring
> mail list management in-house for better control and flexibility.
> Are we now of that size? Is there enough volunteer time to handle this
> without decreasing activity in other areas? These are the questions
> that should be addressed when attempting to achieve a mutually agreeable
> decision that will serve the entire membership.

If you do end up moving the list for better control and flexibility,
I'd be interseted to know the specifics. It's one of my personal goals
to have our product be better than running a mailing list on your own
machine. That goal is some of the motivation behind the Activity
logging, and the up-and-coming web/email traffic graphs.

Of course we understand not everyone is willing to use an advertising
supported service, so if the banners are your primary motivation I
understand. In case you didn't know, we do have an option to pay-for
no ads. It's about $60 per group for a year of no-ads.

This is now sounding too much like some sales pitch so I'll have to
stop before someone revokes my engineering skills.

P.S. Mingw32 is great stuff. I hope to get my DirectDraw game engine
compiling with it someday soon.

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