[Lowfer] Do you Yahoo!?

[Stewart Nelson]

Hi all,

Sorry, I respectfully disagree with Art.

> No, you don't want yahoo!
> 
> I belong to 2 yahoo lists and I speak from experience. I really want to 
> leave them, but the content is superior, so I tolerate yahoo.
> 
> Nearly every message has a yahoo inserted graphical based 'ad'. 

Yes, I do see many of those garish, often flashing ads, and they are
quite annoying.  They often dwarf the poster's message; you have to
think twice to avoid deleting the whole thing as spam. 
However, Yahoo! only puts graphic ads in HTML mail.  The ad associated
with a plain text message is only four lines of plain text, discreetly
added at the bottom.  (The member can select an option to receive
such messages to HTML, but would be foolish to do so.)
 
The graphic ads would not be a problem here, because we are all used to
posting in plain text; the lowfer reflector does not allow anything else.

Yahoo! is awesomely fast.  Messages are distributed in seconds, rather
than many minutes or sometimes hours, as we see here.

Also, HTML can be quite useful.  Those of us on the RSGB LF reflector
know that posts can contain small captures, mathematical formulas,
waveforms, etc.  Sometimes, a picture really is worth 1000 words.
In those cases, I'd gladly tolerate the graphic ad.
 
> I had problems accessing the file area that yahoo gives the group
> -- multiple emails to them went unacknowledged. The issue remains
> unresolved to this day.

I belong to only one such group, and it does not have that problem.
But, at qth.net there is no files area at all, so we won't be any
worse off :)

73,

Stewart KK7KA