Spamless group blog

Hi Former members of Bay Area Gardening on Yahoo Groups,

This is a blog -- that's web slang for web log. Click on the word, it's linked to a definition of 'blog.' They're all the rage now, you know?

I've set it up so that it is a group blog -- that means several people can create posts and the general online public can see the posts and can add their comments. If spammers add comments about irrelevant commercial services, we can delete them. We can restrict comments to members only, or turn off all comments -- no one can make comments. We can, if we want to, add AdSense which will place context-relevant adds on the blog's page. Those ads would be driven by Google. I have found relevant ads to be more useful than annoying. But for now, let's keep it a 'bare' blog.

The advantage of a blog over Yahoo Groups' email list is you have more choices. You can have the system notify you when a new post is made, or you can check at the blog site when you feel like it to see what's new. You can make comments that will be presented with the post so no long, long, repetitous email threads. The disadvantage is (as far as I know) no tools like archiving files, or the ability to conduct simple polls... but we didn't use those tools anyway when we were on Yahoo Groups.

Some more advantages: we can add pictures! We can have color! Alternative fonts! Active links! We can create a blog roll (a directory) so readers can check out other blogs that we recommend. We can have a larger audience.

Team Members:

Go to Blogger (click on the word "Blogger") to get how-to instructions if you need them. Or if you've received an email with the address to send your post to, you can start blogging now!