[Lowfer] Do you Yahoo!?

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:18:09 -0500

Stewart wrote:

> Sorry, I respectfully disagree with Art.

I must also disagree with Art, but that will not come as a surprise to him
as we have respectfully disagreed before (former WA1PTC waves to Art).  8-)

I run several Yahoo groups and have never had a single problem. As a matter
of fact, I started two of the groups about 10 years ago, before yahoo bought
egroups.com. We did have problems when egroups owned it but once yahoo
bought it out the problems cleared quickly.

I have no problem moving to Yahoo tomorrow. The Lowfer_Notice list runs
there, members of this list are members there and when this list tanks the
postings pick up over there.

For all the reasons noted, and with thanks to the QTH.NET guys, I hope we
can come to a consensus and move the list.

Mike
wm1ke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Stewart Nelson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:50 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
>
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