From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 04/08/02-10:40:06 AM Z
At 12:03 PM 4/7/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>For those of you who want to also have a place to post images, etc. I have
>just started a yahoo group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AltProcess/
>The group will be moderated and membership approved so that hopefully I can
>keep all spaming out of the group.
Well maybe. Yahoo spams the groups and sells the email addresses to
spammers. Yahoo just announced or hinted at that yahoo mail will be a
charged for. Do a google search on yahoo and mail and free. Not to charge
much, only 19.00 a year but the other services are next.
>It works the same way as a mailing list
>if you allow messages sent to your email. OR you can just select to not have
>messages sent to your email and return whenever you like to the website and
>look at posted messages and images.
>
>I'm not trying to take away from this list because I think this is an
>invaluable service. But I do want something else as a supplement to this
>group (specifically looking at images within a group setting).
>
>There are three reasons I chose to make this group.
>
>1.) All you have to do is go to the website to see posted messages
>2.) You can post images to you message OR make a folder on the site and keep
>images in it.
>3.) If you are visiting the site from another computer all you have to do is
>sign in to post.
>
>Now you do have to make a free account with yahoo groups.
Not free anymore or soon not to be free. Yahoo has announced pay-for-play
on their games and their groups will be charged for soon. The name of their
game has been to "trap" a significant portion of their audience and then
hit them with charges once they are committed. The banner ads etc have not
been footing the bill so something has got to give.
I chose to pay a premium for a premium service. No one gets spammed no
banner ads, I don't sell the email list. I do make occasional email about
public events like APIS and PhotoArts Santa Fe. So far in the last year two
mailings.
--Dick
>I haven't had any
>problems of unsolicited emails, etc due to this. If you really want to keep
>your identity secured, just sign up for a free yahoo email (or any other
>free email) and use that as your email account when signing up for the yahoo
>groups. This is what I did so that I have a web based email account that
>only gets traffic from yahoo groups I belong too. This is really simpler
>then it sounds.
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Wagner [mailto:larix@well.com]
>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 9:29 PM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: RE: traffic
>
>I am only raising the possibilty of doing things differently. I had no idea
>that habits here are so ingrained. So be it. I'll get by I'm sure. Don't
>worry yourself.
>
>Jeff
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Makris [mailto:nick@mcn.org]
>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 4:14 PM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: traffic
>
>
>Jeff, with all due respect, the answer might be to start your own
>newsgroup - people do it everyday.
>
>Nick
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