On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Amy Stinson wrote:
> Without a whole heck of a lot of fanfare, Y!groups deleted all the
> adult groups with the exception of the humor areas.
>
> I'm guessing that they checked with their attorneys and found that
> hosting adult groups without sufficient controls would leave them
> open for litigation.
I don't think so. Yahoo also closed all of their adult commerce
areas, which the landsharks could not exactly have been ignorant
of. I think Chuq is right: their problem was that their already-weak
market cap was threatened by bad press. I don't see any issues
here specific to list management.
