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>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/26/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">aaron</b> <<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> <br> _______________________________________________<br>
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