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Re: [TenTec] Yahoo and the Orion email reflector

To: SteveBaron@StarLinX.com, eric@k3na.org, tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Yahoo and the Orion email reflector
From: "Bill Rowlett" <kc4atu@hotmail.com>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:13:40 +0000
List-post: <mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
Why would they be interested in another list and having it moved. Is this not the Ten-Tec list?? Why have another?? Some people just need to control something so they go off on their own.

Flame suit on and I'm off to the cave.

73, kc4atu




From: "Steve Baron - KB3MM" <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>
Reply-To: Steve Baron - KB3MM <SteveBaron@StarLinX.com>,tentec@contesting.com
To: <eric@k3na.org>, <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Yahoo and the Orion email reflector
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:23:29 -0000


This is such an important issue, one would think that Ten Tec would be
interested in the Orion and get the list moved.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Scace K3NA" <eric@k3na.org>
To: "Bill Tippett W4ZV" <btippett@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "TenTec mailing list" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 03:50
Subject: [TenTec] Yahoo and the Orion email reflector


> Hi Bill --
>
> Yahoo's privacy policy has improved over the last couple of years. But
this is part of Yahoo's privacy statement that I object
> to:
>
> "Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you ...
except ... under the following circumstances:
> We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or
with Yahoo! under confidentiality agreements. These
> companies may use your personal information to help Yahoo! communicate
with you about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing partners.
> "
>
> And here: "Web pages may contain electronic images (called a
"single-pixel GIF" or "web beacon") that allow a web site to count
> users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Yahoo! uses
web beacons in the following ways: Yahoo! uses web
> beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web
sites and also for auditing purposes." And further: "Yahoo!
> uses web beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside and outside our network
of web sites"
>
> I object to Yahoo providing my personal information to third parties,
and to Yahoo! accessing cookies not related to its specific
> web site.
>
> While I would dearly love to participate in the Orion email reflector,
I'm not going to lend support to a company which insists
> on providing information that it collects to outsiders with no opt-out
ability. And there is now no way to participate in a
> Yahoo-controlled email reflector without registering and providing this
personal information.
>
> The reason that I raise the matter here is that I would like the list
moderator to reconsider hosting the list elsewhere; e.g.,
> on the same service that is hosting the TenTec reflector.
>
> -- Eric K3NA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tippett
> Sent: 2003 September 23 Tuesday 10:17
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Yahoo, etc
>
>
> Before everyone totally badmouths Yahoo, here is a
> copy of the note I sent to Eric K3NA.
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV
>
> N1JM:
> >Once you sign up, there is a way to opt out of all that marketing stuff.
>
> Eric, this is true. I opened a separate Yahoo E-mail account
> (free) because I had the same concerns as you (i.e. getting spam from
> Yahoo). But...
>
> 1. I opted out of all the marketing options.
> 2. I never get anything from Yahoo directly.
> 3. Yahoo has one of the most effective spam filters around...so much
> so that I now forward all mail to an old spam-compromised address at my
> current ISP to Yahoo, and 90-95% of it is caught by their "Bulk" spam
> filter. What spam remains can be tagged as spam which they use to improve
> their filters.
>
> I'm so happy with Yahoo's Bulk filter that I've even considered
> signing up for POP access (only $9.95 per year) and running ALL my e-mail
> through their filter first and then forwarding what's left to my current
> ISP. I use a very effective spam filter (Mailwasher Pro) for all my
> non-Yahoo addresses, but it it not nearly as effective as Yahoo's because
> of the huge volume of messages their site sees, which contributes to the
> quality of their filter. It's like having a gigantic callsign database
for
> CT versus one you personally construct!
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV
>
>
>
>
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