Rick, Please read Yahoo's Terms of Use, which is at the bottom of each email. Pay particular attention to the spam policy within the Terms of Use. It says in there that your Yahoo ID can be terminated without notice for violating that policy. What Mark was doing fits one of the examples of spamming as listed in the spam policy. Also remember when each of us signed up for Yahoogroups we had to accept the conditions of the Terms of Use. So we were informed of what is expected and not allowed when we signed up. 73's Jim, KE4CON
--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Rick W <mrf...@frontiernet.net> wrote: From: Rick W <mrf...@frontiernet.net> Subject: Re: [digitalradio] illinoisdigital group To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:59 PM I agree that what Mark did was clearly overzealous. If he did this to my group I could see that he could be removed or better yet blocked from posting if you don't want to deal with having to moderate each message. That would have given him a stronger message. But the fact is that you would not find a stronger promoter of digital ham radio anyplace. Consider the effort and cost he has donated to the cause with his promotional efforts and travel. I can see where Yahoo could threaten him with taking down the group if they really have received the number of complaints that posters have indicated. What I have a real problem with is if they did not warn him. I do not think it is appropriate to just destroy a group without some warning. If they had warned him and he continued to do the messaging, then that is another thing. Otherwise, as I mentioned, a concerted effort by malicious individuals could cause the destruction of any group. 73, Rick, KV9U John Becker, WØJAB wrote: > Rick this is true but I must ask is there really a need to post it > to every ham list on yahoo? I was getting it 20 or so times. > > On the list that I either own or moderate he was set to "no mail". > This tells me one thing only. He did not want anything going to his > in box and must have been reading from the group site. > > But since he never posted to the list other them his SPAM that > tells me the he also never read anything at all. > > There is a move about to keep him off yahoo. > What do you think is going to happen the next time? > > John, W0JAB > >
