Re: Ang: Announcement: Opera-Users mailing list to be closed in late July, 2010

Hi John,

      What you do not know, and a lot are aware, 
is that you, as the owner or moderator, can set 
how the YahooGroup can be accessed, and what can 
happen.  That includes not allowing anyone except 
members of that group to be able to read stuff on 
the site; that includes not allowing anything to 
be able to appear when doing a Google search, 
except for someone finding out that such a group 
list exists; that includes only allowing those 
whom the owner and/or moderator approve, to be on 
the list; and more; it even includes not allowing 
Yahoo to tell its advertizing partners about your 
group in ways that disclose anything about them, 
except what your group publically states.

      Unfortunately, the two types of groups which 
seem to be most known, are those with what is 
called "Complete" control, and those which are 
known as "Open."  People usually hate dealing with 
both.  The first means that the owner or a 
moderator must literally read and approve each and 
every message sent to and through the group, and 
then decide whether to allow it to continue, or to 
kill it.  The second means that anyone can join 
and anyone can post anything without regard to 
anything, including spamming and scamming.  We can 
have a group which is someplace inbetween those 
extremes.

      Does this help?

                        Julian.
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