Sorry, I meant "Drew" <donhellen@...> wrote: ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: https://groups.io/g/ICOM

Mark set up the predecessor of Groups.io in 1998, having been using email lists since 1989 : https://wingedpig.com/category/onelist/ As you say, a good few years after Usenet, but still a pioneer of

Shal . . . My cable internet provider used to provide access to Usenet for free. I now pay $2.95/mo for a small number of GB of data, plenty for me since I don't download copyright protected movies

Sorry, I didn't follow the cable tv analogy. In any case there are still USENET providers around who charge individuals a mostly flat fee for access to thousands of groups. (Some people may not know

Herb, You are right, that is exactly true of a system of perks. I agree there. The group owner should be able to decide whether there are perks at all, and if so which features are tied to the perk

Ken, I understood that perfectly well. But I reject the idea that it has to be 100% one or the other. So my suggestion is that the members (and the owner) be able to make voluntary donations toward

Ken, this is exactly what I would like to see happen.

Barbara, Use the "Upgrade ($20) for one month, w/automatic downgrade to Basic after" button. Use it in a test group if you don't want to use it in a real group. It doesn't even have to be your test

>>> It just seems like it would make more sense if the subscriber were the customer instead of the group owner.<<< *** This makes little or no sense (nonsense?) from Mark’s point of view operating

Wikipedia has a stumbling blick for me. Each time aI try to donate, I read the P&Qs, and learn they didn't just eant my money... they wanted my name and details beyond what anybody needs... and they

Any chance you could have another co-owner (and you really really should have another co-owner for safety) do the money collecting (i.e., receipt of monetary gifts)?

(list of perks, that are otherwise restricted by the group) I don't think anyone should be able to bypass what the group's owners have specified as how the group operates. If on the other hand the

I am glad that you have found a way that works for you :). My own personal circumstances are very different by the sound of it and your solution would not work for me. Barbara

I thought this was true too, which is one reason I stopped asking for donations to keep a website going in the past (after having spoken to an IRS rep who said if you are collecting money you would

Shal, Apparently, I didn't explain myself properly. I was referring to the concept of GROUPS.IO making each user a customer and charging each user rather than the group owner. Ken “Silence in the

Mark, Earlier I may have opposed rewriting the From field in member's own messages when "I always want copies of my own emails" is checked, but a few factors have changed by viewpoint. Now I think

Janice, What Donald and others have said. Yahoo Groups did have discrete two-line text ads in the footers of email messages at one time. They gave up on that really early on because the few

JohnF, I like that idea. Sort of like joining a YouTuber's Discord channel. I like that too. Also, maybe there could be donation incentives at the group level, either within the current Donation

Given TIME, and changes in circumstances........ANYTHING that has been "cast in stone", is subject to change. Chuck, CABGx3

For the purposes of planning, I am going to assume that - as is generally the case - Mark means what he says. Pete