do you belong to any yahoo groups?

canastaband is for my band. We used to use it for all band e-mail communication, but sometimes the e-mails arrived late, so we don't use it for that anymore. But we still maintain a calendar on the Yahoogroups site, which I think is a good thing for scheduling shows, etc.

freaks95 is a group started by some people I went to high school with -- a dozen or so friends who were a year above me. It's a public group, and I found it while Googling the names of random people from high school. It's not used very much, but occasionally I'll check in to find that someone's getting married or whatever.

fawc (aka Friends of Aaron Writing Club) was started by my friend Aaron as a, well, writing club. The idea was you post a poem or short story (or whatever) you've written, and the group gives you feedback. I've never had time for it; I think it's sort of died a slow death.

kaytee is a fan group for the singer-songwriter Kaytee Bodle. I put out a winter-themed compilation CD a couple of years ago and wanted her to be on it, but I didn't have her contact info. So I joined the group in order to get her e-mail address.

Tigermilking, Corduroy Smoke and Space Cadets - all Belle & Sebastian related.

London Indie - self explanatory

London Indie 2 - also self explanatory, but inactive and I'm not sure why it exists

How Does It Feel? - Originally the message board for the London club nite of that name was hosted on the howdoesitfeel website, but later a yahoo group was set up.

electrodiscopunks and recordcamp are both relatively interesting music discussion groups with many crossover people.

spockmorgue is the bay area noise hipster scene I visit occasionally.

a few KBD/Punk77 type boards.

a few more.

honestly, yahoogroups sucks and nyhappenings will go indiependent soon. No reason why yahoo should make advertising revenue instead of me. Expect nyhappenings.org to be a one-stop for ny scene, community, profiles, editors, forums, the whole deal. Eventually.

btw, my yahoogroup has 2,342 members, 432 of which are bouncing. All through word of mouth.

Most of these lists I get in digest mode, and most are very low traffic. Nevertheless, looking at it all laid out like this, I must be fucking insane. At the very least, I shd unsub from the groups for synths I haven't got.

Sadly missed = doomie's list, which was great.

nyhappenings - ever since that fateful night in 2001 when i met dan on the york street platform at 5am.

architectureinhelsinki - that cute aussie band.

starsdeluxe - for that other cute band, stars.

oxiana - central asian politics and travel

And it also makes me feel more popular, when my mail program tells me that i've got new mail every 5 minutes or so.

Is this the girl from that American High show?!

*subscribed to both to read a few hysterical flamewars involving people i know

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/firewatercircus/

- aeoc (art ensemble of chicago)
- antonioni (discussion of il maestro)
- chi-improv (listings and discussion of chicago jazz/improv/experimental scene)
- redwings (detroit red wings)
- suncitygirls

and 12 foot lizards which is to another email account

rip

they sure as hell seem to think i belong to some!

Well, did you reply to the reply all and say “Please remove me as well”?

it's not closing? they're just removing the files and polls and whatnot.

Yes but as a result of that lots of groups are pulling up stakes and moving elsewhere. If you had a dormant membership set to web only you might start getting every single email again when they switch hosts.

Shame I did a lot of research and stuff though a couple of the lists several years ago. So would be good to have them there to go back to still.