Re: [PLUG] What became of the wireless mesh talk?

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

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M.Simons wrote:

> > > I had also created a mailing list on yahoogroups called PLAN-TALK P.L.A.N.
> > > being Philadelphia Local Area Networking or something like that... my
> > > interest and philosophy in that is connectivity by any means neccessary,
> > > be it wired, or wireless, light, or otherwise based.
> > >      
> > You might lose people.  A lot of people, like me, have dropped yahoo
> > groups because of their pattern of changing your privacy preferences
> > without notifying you or asking your consent.  Not to mention the ads.
> >    
>
> Yeah, it's just an easy tool and it's still there. I've actually *never*
> had problems with this.  I think it's overblown, and may just be related
> to yahoo email accounts... you can STILL join a yahoo group from any email
> address without giving yahoo ANY of your info (except that email address.)
>
> They did recently start some sort of anti-spam email filter on groups
> thing which is screwing things up right now, but I figure they'll fix it
> soon enough.
>
>  
Yeah.  I subscribe to 5 of their groups.  Have been doing so since yahoo 
acquired e-groups.  Never had a problem.  I administer 4 of the groups 
and all they have besides my name and email is a zip code and that is 
fictitious.

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