On 11/25/2014 3:19 PM, Stager, Scott P. wrote:
> They hide the identity of the original poster.    No sign of their original
email address.  That makes it impossible to reply directly to them instead of
the list.


I suspect that's something the  list managers did.   On the Yahoo groups 
lists to which I belong I get all the  addresses just as if they were 
coming to me personally.  So if I want to send a personal private reply 
I can, no problem.

I don't understand the thinking in a couple other posts  that somehow 
using Yahoo might  risk  - - - what was the phrase - - - "cubbyholes" 
and "special interest"  to any degree beyond what the list operators 
(read: mods)  would create; as if oldtools is not already somewhat 
special interest and somewhat narrowly defined already. After all, it is 
all about the old tools.

Anyway, I am not advocating for a switch to any particular format or 
server ( maybe if they'd pay me),  I'm responding to Chris Swingley's 
request for options and opinions,  and mine is that Yahoo is a fine 
platform worth investigating.