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Re: news groups, an easier way to communicate, or atleast a supplement

Actually, yahoo's been getting alot of crap lately about spam. Apparently
they've been changing their poilicies lately, and automatically
subscribing users to a variety of spam, unless you log in and fill out a
"don't send me crap" form, which they don't mention to you, you have to
find. Not sure how much of this is reality, and how much is my
acquaintences paranoia. I'm on 2 yahoo groups, I've had the same address
for 8 or 9 years now, and on the whole, I don't get /alot/ of spam. Does
seem to have increased in the last few months, could be their fault. Could
be my girlfriend, subscribing me to various polls, etc. Who knows.

Anyway, I don't like the interface of the searchable archive, but I like
the structure of the list as it is. There's alot of talent on this list,
probablu alot of servers, and it really doesn't take much to keep things
running well, compared to the hassles of advertising, etc. that one gets
with the other options. Newsgroups were great when you had to be at a
university or working for a defencee contractor (or hacking in), they're
kind of a pain now.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Christopher Allen wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002  wrote:
> > I was think what if we started a wearables Google Groups
>
> Done:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.sys.wearables&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&hl=en
>
> It doesn't get used much. If you want to start a new group, Yahoo Groups
> seem to be popular these days. It looks easy to start one:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/
>
> They offer a number of features that newsgroups don't, like:
>
>   Files
>   Photos
>   Bookmarks
>   Polls
>   Calendar
>
> They seem to be spam- and abuse-resistant as well. Posting and reading
> offers the flexibility of either reading/posting right from/to the Yahoo
> Group web archive or from e-mail (regular or digest delivery) or both if
> you like. This is configurable by individual subscribers, so everyone can
> have it just how he wants it.
>
> To get the best idea of what they look like in real life, I suggest
> subscribing to one. Here's one I'm subscribed to that seems to work pretty
> well:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Know_Nukes/
>
> The pictures uploading ability comes in handy for that group.
>
> -Chris
>
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