Personally, I would not use Yahoo! Groups for something like
this. As easy as it is to set up a YahooGroup, I would feel
less comfortable counting on Yahoo! to handle the privacy
issues then I would to handle the privacy issues within my
own organization.
Most of the work I do with blogs, Forums, etc., these days,
are done with CivicSpace. I believe that CivicSpace would
be a very good tool for this, allowing users to have blogs
if you so chose, supporting forums, supporting private
messaging, all with good password protection.
My two cents...
Aldon
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>>I am the founder and pricipal of a non-profit
organization that focuses on helping people facing serious
health challenges find meaning, value, and purpose in their
lives. I've been doing this in my surgical practice starting
30 years ago and I created supportive groups (called HOPE
Groups) for this purpose in 1987. We know how
therapeutically valuable this work is and how to share and
replicate it. We now wish to submit it to clinical study. As
a part of the program, we will be training people how to do
this work and will need to keep in touch with them and their
institutions to support them with our lengthy experience. We
feel that the Internet is a vital part of providing this
service, and wonder whether a BBS (like Vision Quest), a
blog, and/or a Yahoo group would be the best for closed,
password- protected ongoing forums and individual
consultations. This group seems to be a perfect place to
raise this concern. Thanks for your help.>>
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