[PaQSO] Reminder: MAQP Reflector

[K3YD@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/24/2003 22:35:49 Eastern Standard Time, 
wa4pgm@kinex.net writes:

<< A new Yahoo Group has been established for the proposed
 "Mid Atlantic QSO Party" Anyone with suggestions . . .   >>

I will not be participating in this or any other forum hosted on Yahoo and 
want the users of this forum to know why.

This is the part of Yahoo's privacy statement to which I object:

"Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you ... 
except 
... under the following circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with 
Yahoo! under contract agreements. These
companies may use your personal information to help Yahoo! communicate with 
you 
about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing partners."

   And: "Web pages may contain electronic images (called a "single-pixel 
GIF" or "web beacon") that allow a web site to count
users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Yahoo! uses 
web 
beacons in the following ways:   Yahoo! uses web
beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites 
and also for auditing purposes."  And: "Yahoo!
uses web beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside and outside our network of 
web 
sites"

   I object to Yahoo providing my personal information to third parties, and 
to 
Yahoo! accessing cookies not related to its specific web site.

   While I would like to participate in the MAQP email reflector, I'm 
not going to lend support to a company {Yahoo} which insists
on providing information that it collects to outsiders without giving me the 
option to NOT participate. 

 There is no way I know to participate in a Yahoo-controlled email reflector 
without registering and providing personal information.

   The reason that I raise the matter here is that I would like the MAQP
moderator to reconsider hosting the list elsewhere; e.g.,
on the same server that is hosting the PAQP reflector.  

73, Blair K3YD