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

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:12:51 -0400, John Silby <[email protected]>  
wrote:

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


I announced else where that membership and messages are screened (for the  
time being). There isn't any more I can do.


> 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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