[TenTec] new Orion group on Yahoo

[Eric Scace K3NA]

Hi Bill --

   Yes I agree with you in some respects.  I just don't want to go through the added effort of reading webpage-based email as I
already have quite a bit of email workload.  But, more importantly, the Yahoo privacy issue (overblown or not) is perceived as
important enough to more than just a couple of people.  I assume the intent of an Orion group/list is to reach a wide, knowledgeable
audience... so that's why I tried to encourage a change.

   I'm perfectly happy to have an Orion-only list... I just don't want it on Yahoo.  That said, I've added enough gasoline to the
fire.  There isn't anything more constructive that I can add and I've given it my best shot.  The worst that can happen is the Orion
discussion goes back to Yahoo, and I (and others) will remain unaware of what has transpired there.  Mostly I will be sorry to miss
out on what learned and posted by people whose opinions I respect (like you!).

73,
   -- Eric K3NA

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tippett
Sent: 2003 October 6 Monday 06:53
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] new Orion group on Yahoo


K3NA:
but there is one piece of non-bogus information: your e-mail address!

         So create a Yahoo address specifically for Yahoo
Groups!  That'swhat I did and I only read the Groups via webpage.  I am
subscribed
to about a dozen Yahoo Groups as well as using several of their
financial BB's and feel this whole "privacy" issue is academic.  Yahoo
disguises your E-mail address anyway...even better than contesting.com
does!  My address appears here as "btippett at alum.mit.edu" and on Yahoo
it appears as "w0zv at y..."

         I think we're making a mountain out of a molehill on this whole
Yahoo issue.  It's because of all the noise (like this discussion)
that this reflector has a much lower signal-to-noise ratio than the
previous Yahoo Orion reflector did.  JMHO.

                                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV

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