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

Webgenie, thanks, but "enjoy" and "Yahoo" are not two words that I'd  
normally use in the same sentence, LOL.

John

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:15:03 +1000, Webgenie <[email protected]> wrote:

> John, you don't have to like Yahoo to be able to enjoy the groups.
> Just have your settings the way you want them.  Don't worry about
> Yahoo inflicting advertising in your e-mail, since you use content
> blocker all the time ;)  I like the groups, but one thing that should
> tell you how I feel about Yahoo is this - Yahoo partnered with AT&T to
> provide DSL service in my area - "partnered" means they got an
> opportunity for marketing and spying on DSL customers.  The way they
> did this was via the Yahoo browser and an installation CD that the
> customer received from AT&T.  Now, I'm not terribly geeky (though god
> knows I try), but I researched on the internet to find out how to
> install the DSL without the CD and the spyware browser/Yahoo software.
>  And I succeeded.  That made me pretty happy for as long as I had DSL,
> but in the end, I could not tolerate exploitation by AT&T and have
> switched to much higher priced cable internet.  And I find it worth
> it.
>
> Webgenie
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