I'm quoting Martin's message in its entirety below because I think he makes some good points (there are others) about the difficulties the PBS list has been having with changing email providers such as Yahoo. What independent and open source mailing lists or software Martin has in mind I'm not sure, but I do know that while I have time to deal with email, having to add such web sites as Facebook, Twitter, etc. is not going to happen. There isn't enough time in a day as it is. We would lose our control and dealing with the fall-out is more than a small organization such as ours can handle. Yes, we do sometimes have inappropriate comments or discussions, but unless they're truly out of control, I ignore, delete and move on. We have a very flexible setup here and people provide lots of information and details that I fear would be lost in the shuffle if we moved to another mode of communication. """""While I see the shortcomings of the mailing list (especially since most people these days use some web-mail services instead of a good mail program filtering and sorting stuff), I strongly dislike the loss of control a move to Facebook would bring. The list is under complete control members of the PBS, and not in the hand of a company following commercial interests. The loss of yahoo groups has already taught lots of (horticultural and other) organizations a lesson: any company can change any policy at any time. If we'd leave the mailing list behind, I'd vote for a solution as independent and open source as possible - that would be the opposite of Facebook.""""" Robin Hansen Southwest Oregon and hoping for rain _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>