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

LOL, not really. It doesn't change my opinion of Yahoo, but perhaps  
someone needs to tell James to tighten his security!

Advertising? Hmmm, another mark against Yahoo, LOL. No advertising with  
Mailman!

John

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:01:57 +1000, Julian <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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