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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:32:20 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] OS/2 Portable Users List

I've done that (text-only email) (again), which is the way I used to do 
it. I have no way to quantify any increase in spam as a result of my 
subscriptions there, so obviously, I can't point the finger there.

The other annoying thing they have is their "security" feature of not 
allowing posts from a secondary email address when I've specified a 
different registered address for receipt of email, even if both 
addresses are registered. IOW, if I want to receive my emails at my 
CompuServe address, and I have Mozilla set to reply from my 
2rosenthals.com address, Yahoo will bounce my posting. I'm actually 
forced to post with the same address from which I receive email.

Anyway, all moot points as I've added this group to my subscription list!

Stanley Sidlov wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:13:07 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5, Charles McCallister wrote:
>
>  
>
>>You know, I'm on a couple of those, set my preference for digest mode, (and
>>maybe Text rather than HTML) and don't get near the ads with my offline
>>reader  than if I did their webview. FYI.
>>    
>>
>
>IF you do change your yahoogroup setting to text, the ad can be lost at the bottom of the page 
>especially when the group's unsubscribe message can be so long. 
>
>I am never bothered by any of the ads on yahoogroups. They are so low down on the view, that I hardly 
>register them, much the same way I hardly register some of the long sigs that come up. And since I 
>will stop scrolling at the unsubscribe message, well, I never get to the ad. I don't think that this 
>is a valid reason to not use Yahoogroups, since you can easily ignore them. 
>
>There is a digest mode, but I don't like it  since people reply to the digest number without copying 
>the subject line to the message they are posting to. 
>
>The HTML version though seems (last I remember) to stick the ad in your face, download additional 
>graphics and such. It is IMHO, a waste. Use the text only mode and all is well. And with getting about 
>up to 12,000 emails a month a waste of my disk storage. Nine days in and already 1800 emails (only 9% 
>spam at this point).
>  
>

-- 
Lewis
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