It's not a matter of spam and virii making to the list but the spam and
virii that make to the individual's personal mailbox. I signed up with
Yahoo sometime in the last year or two and promptly proceeded to receive a
large increase in the amount of spam I receive (I don't do badly on the
virus front and the few I have received have been dutifully sidelined by my
free AVG virus scanner). I fought Yahoo to get de-listed, with minimum
success. I don't want to receive Yahoo's spam, thankyouverymuch. Other
forms of advertising, such as pop-up ads, are equally as annoying; yes, I
can (and do) have a pop-up stopper loaded, but that's not the issue; Yahoo's
"in your face" advertising is.
The sounds you hear are those of us who get enough spam and virii as it is
and don't need more. Plus, we would like to keep the Ten-Tec list whole.
Insofar as people don't mind the crap they get when they sign up with Yahoo,
insofar as there are people who don't mind bifurcating the lists, you'll
always have your option. At least while it is "free" from Yahoo. But count
me out.
73,
Joe, W2RBA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-admin@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-admin@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Duane Grotophorst
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 1:17 PM
> To: WA3FIY@radioadv.com; Chris Robson; tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Re: Keep it on the Listserve
>
>
>
> While debating of the merits of having a splinter list
> or not for the 516/Argonaugt V is valid, a global
> condemnation of Yahoo (and many of its peers) is not.
> After all the amount of spam that makes onto a list is
> largely a function of how proactive the moderator is
> with managing the list on a day to day basis and
> little else.
>
> The RX320 group on Yahoo seems to be doing reasonably
> well as its own entity and does stay pretty focussed
> to the RX320. The Yahoo RX350 list however doesn't
> seem to have reached any kind of critical mass, ditto
> for the Orion list over there.
>
> As for Yahoo - despite its reputation for propagating
> spam/viruses it can also be a powerful tool to fight
> them, if properly applied. I use my Yahoo email
> address for the various ham radio discussion boards,
> primarily as an additional abstraction layer between
> my PC and the wild and wooly world of the Internet. I
> never use my ISP email address for anything that may
> possibly find its way onto a spammers email list, that
> is what this Yahoo email address I have is for, as
> well as a couple of others I also have. I then use the
> spam filtering provided by Yahoo (and the others), net
> result is that very few ever make it to my inbox. In
> addition all of the mass emailer virus/worms thus far
> have been safely dealt with at arms length while still
> on Yahoo's server, they are usually easy to spot if
> they do ever appear in my Yahoo inbox, needless to say
> they get deleted without ever being opened. And this
> can all be done without my PC's antivirus/firewall
> having to do anything.
>
> About those pesky pop-up ads? A handy dandy
> popup-ad/cookie filter does a nice job of stopping
> most them in their tracks too.
>
> Duane
> N9DG
>
>
> Chris KB3A Wrote:
>
> I for one would like to hear about the new Argonaut,
> however from past
> experiences, I won't partake in any listserve on
> Yahoo. Let's keep Ten Tec
> stuff here where you don't need a special handshake or
> a membership or the
> like. This list is well served and maintained. It has
> good insightful
> feedback and I don't have to be HTMLed to death. This
> is only my opinion,
> if others wish to stray so be it.
>
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