Chance to express a frustration?? It seems the only communication tool that is in wide use in the general population currently is yahoogroups email lists. Why?? What did they do right to create the trend?

People won't even go to forum software anymore, at least not in a sticky way, for the most part. There are successes, certainly, but it's pulling hair to get people to see the advantages of using anything other than maillists, particularly yahoogroups. Which, from an organizational standpoint... sucks!

Some of the things I've needed to do in groups is to categorize information (say for doing planning for a large event) and the people I work with won't go there. A few see the advantages, but most want the 'simplicity' of yahoogroups. So, I'm stuck picking through lineal bits of information in order to find that one particular bit I find I need to go back to. Like I said, frustrating.

Is there something going on that will successfully pull people away from yahoogroups or am I doomed to live in frustration for the forseeable future?