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

Advertising?  That is easily kept to a minimum with AdBlock/content
blocker.  If I had to look at advertising, I would not be using much
of the internet.

Webgenie

> 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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