[ale] Yahoo Groups: perils?

[Jeff Lightner]

If you use Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript plugins along with the
built in popup blocker you don't see most of the advertising anyway.  I
regularly use Yahoo for things like reading news, chatting, email etc...
and don't have much problem with it.

 

Ironically though much of the spam that actually makes it to my Yahoo
Mail in box (rather than bulk mail folder which I simply empty without
perusing) comes from pornographers that have setup Yahoo Groups and are
inviting me to join.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Shapiro
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:40 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Yahoo Groups: perils?

 

As a member of the Vast Corporate Fat Conspiracy who spends his days
figuring out how to abuse users to the maximal extent, I can tell  you
one concrete step you can take to keep the noise to a minimum.  On my
home machines, I have a modified /etc/hosts file which points most
advertising sites to /dev/null. You can find a copy just by goin' a
googlin' on the Mighty Internet  for "hosts files advertising block".
Here's ( http://everythingisnt.com/hosts ) one example.  Naturally I
don't use such a thing at work, where I'm _paid_ to deal with
advertisements.  And of course this won't really help if you choose to
actually visit yahoo, aol.com, or some other evil site.

-- CHS



On 2/26/08, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

I would suggest you show your list members some respect
and go with Google Groups.

The thing I most appreciate about Google's free services is that,
even though they are funded through advertising, their adverts
are not invasive, distracting or user abusive (a complete reversal
of the dozens of flashing graphics and constant barage of cross
promotional popups found on the commercial webmail access
portals and pages I occasionally have to use at Dirthlink and
Commiecast - don't know why I'm expected to put up with this
constant commercial abuse at a subscription service that I pay
for - another case of paying customers getting corporaped).

Most of what we see at entry portals for other free service sites
like Mafia$oft Snotmail or Yahoo Gropes are even more
obnoxious and user abusive than Commiecast and Dirthlink.
I think you would be doing your group a disservice to subject
them to that unnecessarily.

peace

aaron



On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:46, Daniel Howard wrote:
> It's been recommended that I set up a Yahoo Group for our UUCA
Computers
> for the Community (Linux on donated PCs) volunteer group.  I'm used to
> majordomo type listserv's, but it seems the Yahoo Groups are easy to
set
> up and can even be restricted/invitation only.
>
> Any thoughts from this group on perils or concerns with commercial
> approaches like Yahoo or Google Groups?
>
> Best,
> Daniel
>
> --
> Daniel Howard
> President and CEO
> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation


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