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| Egroups & Forums Egroups are places on the web where people join together to discuss a particular topic. Because they have no direct connection to individual web sites, many of the members do not have a web site which makes them very popular since that means anyone can join. They are specifically called Egroups because the discussion is generally conducted via email. Each member has the ability to post or reply to messages and what is written will get automatically emailed to all members. Many egroups have space on the web where the past messages are stored in chronological order so some members in those groups will elect to not receive their messages by email and instead will log onto the web page and read the messages. Forums are similar to egroups except that the discussion takes place completely on organized web pages. Any member can start a 'thread', as a new topic is called, and then any other members responding to that thought will have their message posted below. The advantage is that all thoughts on a particular topic are kept together in an organized fashion. Every egroup and forum has its own protocol and it is wise to avoid posting very much for the first week you are a member until you get a chance to observe the protocol. Also, look for rules. Many egroups and forums have a brief 'rules' listing that explains what is allowed. There are some basics that are common to all egroups and forums though: • Never type in all caps. That is the internet equivalent of 'yelling' and offends many. • If promoting your service, don't repeat your promotion more than once every three or four weeks. When you do repeat it, make sure you have changed what you are saying so it doesn't come across as boring and repetitive. • Make sure that you are only posting thoughts that are on the topic. Every egroup or forum has a topic or range of topics it covers. Anything posted off topic is the egroup/forum equivalent of SPAM and can get you evicted and banned. • Just as on your web site, watch your grammar, spelling and capitalization. Even if others in the group use poorly constructed sentences don't do it yourself. You want to be seen as a quality professional. • Be polite to everyone in the group. Even if somebody is rude or takes cheap shots at you, don't respond in kind. Everyone will label you based on how you behave in the group. It is possible to politely respond and denounce somebody who is saying unkind things to/about you. Maintain your professionalism. • When you reply to a message, trim off all the excess stuff: the advertising that the host web site attached to it, the footer messages, etc. But leave enough of the original message so that readers of your reply have a clue what you're talking about. • If you are making a more personal reply, or a very short thought that is directed only at the author, "Your posting was excellent and I agree totally.", etc. don't post it--everybody doesn't need an extra email that is just a personal message. Send it directly to the member who wrote it and save the rest of the group members the aggravation of having to delete your cute little message. • Should you decide you want to cease membership in a group, don't show yourself to be lacking in brain-cells. Do NOT send a message to the group telling them you want to leave the group. What are they going to do? They're just members like you and will just delete your message and think, "jeez, they're dumb". The home page of every group, and the footer message on most groups emails give the email address to write to if you want to unsubscribe. In many egroups it is unsubscribe@YOUR_GROUPS_NAME. Egroups For Escorts •Escorts Online Another group for escorts to promote themselves to clients. Just make sure that you don't abuse it: if you're promoting yourself to a group like this more than twice in one month you're going to start seeing postings from other members slamming you unless you truly do have some 'news' about yourself to promote. With over 500 members this group is surprisingly inactive. This group was started by the owners of www.escortsusa.com. • Gay Male Escorts Another group for escorts to promote themselves to clients (read Escorts Online description). An advantage of this group over others of its kind is that all emails are approved by moderators before posted so all those annoying 'advertising' ones from spam artists don't get through. A lot of work for the moderators because it is active and has well over a thousand members. Not terribly active, but more importantly the members do appear to pay attention to what escorts post here. One of the best groups to be in. • Pinoy Gay Info Board No info collected on this egroup yet. All of the egroups listed above are on Yahoo! But that doesn't mean Yahoo! is the only place to find egroups. Go to the home page of any egroup site and do a search for escort groups. Here are some egroup homes: • Windows Live • Yahoo! Forums For Escorts Sadly, the three forums we had been aware of have each either ceased operation or evolved into something else. If you are aware of a current forum on escorting we'd love to know about it--just email us. |
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