> about the Orion reflector I decided to join, but, when I found out
> that membership in Yahoo groups was required I hit delete. I have
> enough trouble with spam
I'm mystified and dumbfounded by this entire discussion.
So what if there are two groups, or three or four? The worst that
happens is you occasionally get a duplicate message if the poster
sends to multiple groups.
As to Yahoo, I subscribe to a variety of member-only Yahoo groups,
and get virtually no spam out of that relationship. The only email
address I have that gets any spam to speak of whatever is the one I
advertise on my website, and it is overrun with the stuff -- but that's
why it's there.
The benefit of the private-have-to-be-a-member groups is that bots
can't scrape email adresses off of the archives. And that's also
good reason to have membership requests checked by a
moderator.
On the other hand, THIS list's archive is public and ripe for the
picking.
This seems to me to be a big whoop over a mighty tiny issue ...
Grant/NQ5T
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