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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > --- Jeff Jones skrzypszy: > > > Is there a real hurry? > > Not at all. But since the name is not súch a crucial item anyway, I > don't think this poll is important enough to suspend the creation > of the new group. It is true that you can create the group and change the name afterwards, making sure that everyone's notified so they can change any links. There are only a couple group features that can't be changed. I suppose you can have a name ratification poll on the new list and let it run a couple weeks. > And why not wait another week? For three reasons: first of all, at > the moment it is a "hot item", and after a week people might have > already forgotten about it; furthermore, because the group is > rather quiet anyway at the moment; and at last, because the > archives have been saved up to message 1301. Is there a plan to save the messages from 1302 to the switchover, or is that why the group's being quiet is important? > > Some people may read the list only once or twice a week. > > True. But every member of the group (as far as their email > addresses are not concealed) will receive an invitation to join the > new group. Everything will be clarified in this message. > (On second thought, I don't think it is very polite to add people > automatically; besides, several email addresses on the member list > appear to be obsolete). Politeness aside, it would take at least a week to add everybody with the new Yahoo policy. Any reasonable number of invitations can be issued, however. Jeff > Jan >