Just a quick note about Yahoo groups.

There is a lot of misconception about their service. Actually I defy
anyone to extract another user's email address from Yahoo providing
that user has indicated their address should be kept private when they
registered. I don't believe I have received any spam as a result of
use of Yahoo over several years. In fact there is greater risk of
getting added to spam lists via the existing krnet. If you look
through the krnet archives you will find almost everybody's email
address listed in the body of various messages. It doesn't take a
genious to extract those addresses and add them to spam lists.

Yahoo do use advertising to pay for the service but in my experience
the imposition is quite bearable for the service they provide. I would
definitely support going across to yahoo groups.

Phil Maley
Perth Australia

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