It seems that the current hosting company has some technical limitations with our neighborhood-wide mailing list or list-serve. They impose a limit of 500 emails per hour, mostly to reduce SPAM efforts. I understand why they do this. But, as our mailing list grows in the number of subscribers and the volume of emails created, it’s causing some growing pains.
As I evaluate the available options to potentially migrate our email list, two options are at the top: Google Groups and Yahoo! Groups. Take the following poll to help us decide:
Which list-serve option would you prefer?
- Google Groups (72%, 21 Votes)
- Yahoo! Groups (28%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 29
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Tags: communication, community, email list, google, groups, list serve, mailing list, poll, Yahoo!
We tech writers try to act as interpreters between the technical people and the average “members of the public.” Suggestion: Asking most people to choose between Yahoo Groups and Google Groups might not produce desired results, since I wonder if most average people know enough detail to differentiate between the services provided by those two groups. You might want to consider presenting a pros and cons list for each of the two organizations.
J2
Jason:
I am not sufficiently knowledgeable to have an opinion. I would say that whatever group suits you the most suits me the most.
wendell
Google have completely revamped the Google Groups website and given it a more Web 2.0ish look-n-feel. In the process they have also added some new features some of which are even borrowed [inspired is a better word] from Yahoogroups.
Like Yahoo discussion groups, Google group members can now upload files for sharing with other members of the group with the total storage limit set at 100 MB.
The new UI has received a major facelift and GMail users would love it since it’s more or less a clone of the GMail message view interface. In fact, there’s a high probability that Google may be migrating all their apps to a standard UI as they have also done that for Google reader recently.
Another useful feature in Googlegroups is the ability to create webpages associated with a particular discussion group. The Googlepages creator like WYSIWYG interface will help you publish the webpages and members will be able to leave comments on these pages. So you can post an interactive classified ad of your house or old TV within the group members easily.
Googlegroups now color has themes to customize the look-n-feel of your groups. Plus the member profile section accepts picture thumbnails, short bio and even a personal quote.
Yahoo! may have to deliver something new very soon.
from: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-groups-vs-yahoo-groups-google.html
Google Groups – HANDS down. I’m a Google user… don’t make me go too many clicks away from gmail