[Lowfer] Do you Yahoo!?

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:53:32 -0600

I belong to many Yahoo Groups and have no problems what so ever with any of
them. There are features as an owner that let a person stop all spam 100%. I
use this feature on one of my groups. My members are very happy with the way
the groups functioning. You can read posts online or get them emailed to you
in seconds instead of minutes, hours, days, or rejected from some text or a
link that some other servers software has problems with. Oh yea, it is
totally free with no pleas for donations.

Mike>WE0H

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Stewart Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Do you Yahoo!?

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