Rick Scott is right on with his comments. Remember what Andy our list owner said in a post on Feb 19 09 at 02:37Z
"I am guessing that it was taken down due to violation of Yahoo rules. Several people have written to me privately complaining about what they perceived as violations. I refrained from doing anything because the group was in some sense a competitor to my digitalradio group. Competition is good, so I did not want to do anything that would imply I am biased . The issues raised were related to multiple cross posting and frequent solicitations to join the Illinois group, often after they had asked for the solicitations to stop. The owner made some good contributions here but seemed to get a bit lost at times, a few times items I posted here were later re-posted as new items by this person. Since the Illinois group was activated and undertook major PR efforts, postings to this group dropped about 40%. Perhaps we will see some increased use here. Andy K3UK Owner -Digitalradio " The only way I got it to stop was to block him at my mile server. John, W0JAB At 10:30 AM 2/23/2009, you wrote: >Just so I understand it, are you saying that he repeatedly sent join >requests to the same person (such as yourself)? > >I personally don't consider a request to join another group to be spam >at all, but each to his own. I do know that there have been individuals >who were very pleased to join the other group since it fit well with >their interests. > >But I can see that receiving many repeated requests to be a bit >annoying. Whenever I have sent a request to an individual to join, it >has been a personal message and not something automated. Perhaps he was >using some automated technique and it wound up sending many duplicates? > >It certainly expanded his group rapidly and it was one of the better >groups discussing digital issues since it allowed for much more open >discussions on digital matters. I did have a lot of "local" information >for his area that probably would not interest those outside of our >region. Initially, it was intended for a fairly small geographic area >with what I would call an emphasis on D-Star, but evolved into a world >wide digital discussion group with a high level of comfort. > >If he gets reinstated, I suspect he will be tempering any automated >messaging. > >73, > >Rick, KV9U > > >John Taylor wrote: >> At the risk of stirring an unwanted debate, I for one DO consider >> repeated "join requests" as SPAM. Why? Mark has repeatedly joined >> other "related" groups and immediately started gathering names from >> that group to solicit memberships in his group. I do know, from >> personal experience, that there have been many direct requests to Mark >> to stop sending these requests, only to see the solicitation multiply >> in number almost immediately. On Mark's own groups, he claims to be so >> against SPAM, yet he is one of the worst abusers. The only surprise >> that seeing his group shut down is the time it has taken for it to happen. >> >> Most of us in these groups have enough intelligence to select the >> groups and interests we want to participate in. Repeated >> "solicitations" from a "related" group are in my opinion absolutely >> nothing but SPAM. >> >> I had joined his group at one time and most of the posts on the group >> were nothing more than cross posts from here and other groups, often >> by Mark himself. I really had no reason to receive the same >> information 4 or 5 different times, just so I could get the info from >> 4 or 5 different groups. When I left his group, I asked repeatedly >> that he stop soliciting me to rejoin. That has NOT stopped. >> >> John >> > > > >------------------------------------ > >Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at >http://www.obriensweb.com/sked > > >Recommended software: Winwarbler, FLDIGI, DM780, or Multipsk > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
