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Number   :  174
Date     :  2001-06-13
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: New file uploaded to xxcopy
Size(KB) :  2



Correct me if I'm wrong.

My understanding of how Yahoo Groups works is that you must be
a member of the group to subscribe the Email.

Is there a way to subscribe to the Email without a member?

If you want to become a member of a group (the XXCOPY group
in this case), you have no choice but to register to Yahoo
and get a Yahoo ID, first.

It seems that Yahoo tries to control all aspect of Yahoo-related
Internet resources. I really never thought too much on the
Yahoo membership when I started get involved in this XXCOPY
group because I had my Yahoo ID for other Yahoo thing
(the stock quoting feature). Sometimes, the linkage between
one Yahoo activity and another becomes a hassle (for example,
for better or worse, I happen to have two ID for this group
since I want to be just a regular member to make sure that
everything I experience is what other regular members experience
(including receiving Emails, etc.) while I use the
"Pixelab_Datman" ID as a moderator (which actually I inherited
from Jim Witherspoon who started this group a month ago).

So, occasionally I log in to the Yahoo group as Pixelab_Datman
which causes a lot of other Yahoo related thing go wild.
I guess that's how it works and I just accept how it is.

One feature I like about the Yahoo group is that they help
us keep our Email address from exposed to the general public
by showing only a part of it (but allows us to send an Email
using their linkage) to fight against spamming. I for one,
get tons of junk Emails at the tech.xxcopy address and
I gave up fighting against spamming --- takes more energy
to fight than just discard all junk...

But, in a way, just to subscribe and join the XXCOPY group
for the sake of discussion, etc. seems to come with a sense
of "loss of privacy" and I feel a bit uneasy. Of course,
nobody forces you to become a member (except we at Pixelab
now strongly urge Freeware users to become a member here so
that we don't have to repeat lot of the same tech support
question). Since it is a free service by Yahoo which I
believe is supported solely by the banner advertisement
(and possibly their future leverage to our lives by knowing
at least our email address), it is a fair deal. The ad
banners in the Yahoo groups does not seem to bother me.

Any comment ?

Actually, I have some more thoughts on the group and
I'm going to post another one shortly...

Kan Yabumoto

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At 2001-06-12 19:09, Harsha Godavari wrote:

>Please note that this file cannot be accessed unless one is registered with
>Yahoo.com separately and it is not enough to be a member of this list.
>
>Regards
>Harsha Godavari



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