To be clear Brian, I'm not saying that this sucks and Yahoo rules although I did vote that way on the poll here. The point is that for many the loss of email as their medium of choice for participating is a big problem.

As far as web based boards go, Yahoo sucked and yes UBB is better, way better. But I, and many like me, didn't use the web interface. I never saw ads except the one added as a footer to each email sent. And you know what I mean by that. In fact I see one right now at the top of the page.

I don't know anything about managing UBB as I've never done it or needed to, but this could work great if it was tied into some list management software that would send each post in email to a subscriber. That was eGroups strong point, notice I didn't say Yahoo Groups because it's had it's problems lately and eGroups hasn't been the same since shortly after the Yahoo takeover. Hope everyone sold their Yahoo stock before it went in the dumper.

RC