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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you use Firefox with AdBlock and
NoScript plugins along with the built in popup blocker you don’t see most
of the advertising anyway. I regularly use Yahoo for things like reading news,
chatting, email etc… and don’t have much problem with it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ironically though much of the spam that
actually makes it to my Yahoo Mail in box (rather than bulk mail folder which I
simply empty without perusing) comes from pornographers that have setup Yahoo
Groups and are inviting me to join.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Charles Shapiro<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 27, 2008
9:40 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ale@ale.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Yahoo Groups:
perils?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As a member of the Vast
Corporate Fat Conspiracy who spends his days figuring out how to abuse users to
the maximal extent, I can tell you one concrete step you can take to keep
the noise to a minimum. On my home machines, I have a modified /etc/hosts
file which points most advertising sites to /dev/null. You can find a copy just
by goin' a googlin' on the Mighty Internet for "hosts files
advertising block". Here's ( <a href="http://everythingisnt.com/hosts">http://everythingisnt.com/hosts</a>
) one example. Naturally I don't use such a thing at work, where I'm
_paid_ to deal with advertisements. And of course this won't really help
if you choose to actually visit yahoo, <a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a>, or
some other evil site.<br>
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-- CHS<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 2/26/08, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>aaron</span></b>
<<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>> wrote:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I would suggest you show your list members some respect<br>
and go with Google Groups.<br>
<br>
The thing I most appreciate about Google's free services is that,<br>
even though they are funded through advertising, their adverts<br>
are not invasive, distracting or user abusive (a complete reversal<br>
of the dozens of flashing graphics and constant barage of cross<br>
promotional popups found on the commercial webmail access<br>
portals and pages I occasionally have to use at Dirthlink and<br>
Commiecast - don't know why I'm expected to put up with this<br>
constant commercial abuse at a subscription service that I pay<br>
for - another case of paying customers getting corporaped).<br>
<br>
Most of what we see at entry portals for other free service sites<br>
like Mafia$oft Snotmail or Yahoo Gropes are even more<br>
obnoxious and user abusive than Commiecast and Dirthlink.<br>
I think you would be doing your group a disservice to subject<br>
them to that unnecessarily.<br>
<br>
peace<br>
<br>
aaron<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:46, Daniel Howard wrote:<br>
> It's been recommended that I set up a Yahoo Group for our UUCA Computers<br>
> for the Community (Linux on donated PCs) volunteer group. I'm
used to<br>
> majordomo type listserv's, but it seems the Yahoo Groups are easy to set<br>
> up and can even be restricted/invitation only.<br>
><br>
> Any thoughts from this group on perils or concerns with commercial<br>
> approaches like Yahoo or Google Groups?<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
> Daniel<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Daniel Howard<br>
> President and CEO<br>
> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation<br>
<br>
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