Topic: General. Background: General implies format for the forum--sort of the rules for engagement for the discourse that takes place on TOC message board. In essense, these are what the founder wanted, not what he got although, we think, a few miscelleneous items snuck their way into this topic heading. Please make sure you enter reference as "General / specific topic" in e-mail sent to [email protected]. GENERAL     As you may have read, Yahoo! merged with eGroups, a Clubs-like service with a more robust mailing list feature set. These two services will merge in the new future, with the combined site making it's debut around January or February.     What does this mean for you? A lot of the features you're been asking for, including: - Stronger customization - Varying levels of permissions     (you won't have to choose to give someone full founder ability     when all you want to do is give them the ability to edit the photo album section) - Full-mailing list features (email directly to your Club message area) - Polling capability (create personal polls for your Club) - and much much more. MERGE WITH eGROUPS: This question comes from eGroups merger list. Perhaps you can answer us here. Yahoo! Clubs sites often crash. Many discussion groups moved away from Yahoo! Clubs because of the unreliability of that platform. In the merger, will Yahoo! be improving its reliability and server capacity? Will eGroups maintain separate servers from Yahoo! Clubs?      Yes, when we merge the products we will work very hard on improving the reliabilty of both services. We won't have separate servers though, since there won't be a separate Clubs and eGroups product. They'll be one in the same. REAL PEOPLE to hear real complaints and ideas to help improve the clubs. Possibly a voluntary peer chat of community leaders from Yahoo! clubs with input to the programming staff.     This is what the Official Club is for. Believe it or not, i'm a "real" person. And i'm listening to your complaints and suggestions for Yahoo! Clubs. =0) WEBRING: Ability for clubsites to join webrings. That's an interesting suggestion. With the revamp of Webring, i'll see how possible this is. AUDIO, VIDEO: There should be a section where we can add audio and video. Let's see, we have Photos, Links, News, Calendar, and a Message Board so far. What's missing? Audio and Video would virtually make our clubs, websites!     We'll be integrating Briefcase to Clubs, and from here you can upload audio and video files to your hearts content. TOC Review Topics Introduction to TOC Visit Yahoo! Club Founders' Club CFC Main Page You are visitor to this page. This page and its graphics were created by exclusively for The Club Founders' Yahoo! Chat Club. It is best viewed on a 800x600 screen set for True Color with or and is hosted by . Get them NOW!