To: Hugh Watkins Re: Re: Spam in the Group By: Hugh Watkins to alt.genealogy on Sun Jan 20 2008 01:46 pm > groups.yahoo.com is the most effective system for special interest groups > > It has one disadvantage if the group owner dies the groups can not get a > new moderator > An unhappy group owner can delet it all I abhor groups.yahoo.com... they have killed usenet and the other public access nets. People fail to realize that yahoo is not some benevolent corporation... they are an advertising firm first and foremost. They use our participation on groups for market research. Personally I love usenet (except for the spam) and the moderated fido networks. THey give us all so much more flexibility in the long term. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Derby City BBS -= Allen Prunty =- telnet://derbycitybbs.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Where Friends Gather --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.85 * Derby City LiveWire BBS - Lousiville, KY - telnet://derbycitybbs.com