Another spam topic that might be of interest to many  subscribers  to
abcusers:

I'm on several music-related lists that are hosted at yahoo.  All but
one are there because yahoo "captured" earlier sites like egroups.com
and semi-merged them into their own system.  Not only is this a  real
mess,  but  now it seems that yahoo is selling their subscriber lists
commercially.  This is probably related to the story  last  month  of
yahoo  suddenly  rewriting their user database and opting everyone in
to spam.  The story now is that even if you use  their  web  page  to
change  your  settings  to "no spam", this apparently only applies to
your yahoo email address.  They are reportedly  still  selling  their
mailing-list addresses, with no way to opt out of this.

As a result, a lot of lists are likely to try to move  off  yahoo  in
the  near  future.  So, since abcusers is somewhat a central list for
music of various sorts, it seems likely that  people  here  might  be
able to help.

Can we get a list of sites where music-related lists might be happier
than at yahoo?  Maybe Toby would like to host a few more of them. But
there could be a lot, and it would probably be useful if we could get
a list of possible list-hosting sites that won't treat the subscriber
lists as commercial property.

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