Doug,
I maintain several university lists on our majordomo listserver at the
University of Alberta and have been transferring them to YAHOO. I have had
the WesternCanadianButterfly list on yahoo for a year or so and it is
working very very well. It also allows us to post butterfly pictures and
files for people to easily access. I had co-hosted the SawWhetNet at the
University of Alberta but they too have moved to Yahoo and find it nice.
Majordomo deals only with plain text and no attachments(at least in the wa=
y
any sane person would set it up). Users frequently are not even aware of
what plain text is. Causes major confusion. Some who use AOL have problem=
s
with their system sending proper messages to the university system and the
co-owner of the owl list could not manage the account from his AOL address.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
I get the popup adds if I read on the web page but not with the mail I get.
Google has an option but I did not take advantage of it of getting rid of
the popups. I suggest you set your mail to plain text (safest option
anyway) Yahoo very nicely converts html mail messages (which can contain
things which can be executed on your computer) to plain text to go out to
you. You may want to also increase the security setting on you system will
help. In Windogs 2000 go to the Control Panel and then Internet Options
Select the Privacy Setting. You can block a lot of cookie things there or
all of them. Make sure you delete your cookies that you already have on th=
e
computer. Take a look at the list if you have not been deleating or keepin=
g
them off your system - it is a very long list. That is the stuff people
have dropped on your computer to keep track of you. You do that from the
same internet options program which is on the control panel.
As long as people are going to insist on using mail programs which allow th=
e
execution of stuff from mail messages there is going to be a great indoor t=
o
your computer. Mozilla is no better than Outlook - just not used as much s=
o
things not designed to work in it. I am switching more and more to reading
my mail only on the OpenBSD system (like Unix or Lenix) and using one of
their less friendly mail readers - currently using mutt.
Barb Beck
Edmonton
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Von Gausig
Sent: February 13, 2004 7:49 AM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Moderator's Message: Pop-up ads
Moderator's message:
I hate the pop-up ads that Yahoo Groups is allowing their advertisers to
use. I have written a very strongly-worded letter to Yahoo Groups objecting
to these ads. Yahoo Groups at one time had an option to pay for their
service and avoid ads, but they seem to have stopped that practice, at
least as far as I can tell.
If any of us has university listserve rights, we might think about
switching to one of them.
Doug
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Doug Von Gausig
Digitally Recorded Birds Sounds at:
http://naturesongs.com/birds.html
Clarkdale, Central Arizona, USA
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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