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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nic Wise
> Sent: Monday, 9 July 2001 17:03
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]
>
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> > I'm a user of Yahoo Groups and it offers heaps more options.
>
> yes it does. And it also appends an _advert_ to each and every email that
> goes out, last time I used it.
A few lines of text at the bottom of a message that you can easily ignore.
> OK, so Mark wrote a filter for that, but
> still, someone pays for every email that goes out. Plus, I get
> more spam to
> the accounts I used to have sub'ed to egroups accounts (now yahoo groups)
> than any other account I have.
Well that's interesting. I don't get any spam to the addresses I have signed
on.
> Noone pays for the Delphi lists. Its done off the backs of Gary and Steve.
> We could move it to yahoo or similar, but aside from the _odd_ email
> attachment getting thru, noone's had a problem with it for ages.
There were some other issues raised like archives, address munging, digest
mode, multiple address subscription and so on. YG happens to offer all these
features.
My ISP runs their own lists using mhonarc which is similarly featured and is
free, I think.
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