President's Notes (06/08)
President's Message
Yahoo, We have a Yahoo Group
by Phil Sorrentino
Member of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc.
For those of you who are members of the Yahoo
Group, you understand why the cheer.
For those of you who are not yet members, there is a wealth of information
waiting for you in the form of answers to questions on computer topics. To
join, go to the SPCUG website and click on the Yahoo! Groups, Join Now!
button.
First, some history. The idea of a Yahoo Group was
originally discussed at an SPCUG Board of Directors meeting sometime in
2001. The board thought it was a good opportunity for SPCUG members to have
an on-line forum for computer related questions and answers. Gary
Schweinshaupt and Dave Gerber started the group at the end of 2001 as an
adjunct to the SPCUG Website, and Dave acted as the moderator.
The Yahoo Group is a moderated group, meaning that the
moderator (an SPCUG member) allows or dis-allows posts (messages) to the
Group, so that only posts that are in the interest of the Group get sent to
all of the members. All Yahoo Group members can send posts to the group (via
the moderator), and all members receive all of the posts that are allowed by
the moderator. The moderator assures that commercial advertisements or
objectionable comments, not in line with the Group’s purpose, are not posted
to the members. Currently, Forrest Paradise is the moderator.
For the member who posts a question to the Group, there
are usually many answers. For those members who didn’t post a question,
there are still many answers, because every member receives all the answers.
If you don’t have that specific question now, you might have that same
question in the future. Having the answer, now, might even keep you from
having the question or problem in the future.
There are many Group members who have many years of experience in the
computer field and they are very generous with their information, in the
form of answers to questions. After reading many of the answers by specific
members, you almost feel like you know them. The many answers to the many
diverse questions, sort of forms a distributed database among the members of
the group. I’m not sure there is any other place you could get, or even buy,
the quantity and quality of computer related information, available through
the SPCUG Yahoo Group. :
Copyright 2008. This article is from the June 2008 issue of the
Sarasota PC Monitor, the official monthly publication of the Sarasota
Personal Computer Users Group, Inc., P.O. Box 15889, Sarasota, FL
34277-1889. Permission to reprint is granted only to other non-profit
computer user groups, provided proper credit is given to the author and
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The Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc. has 1,100+ members
and was established in 1982. We are members of the Assoc. of PC User
Groups (APCUG), the Florida Assoc. of PC Users Groups, Inc., and we are
members of the America Online Ambassador Program.
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Monitor, go to the Newsletter Section.