[TenTec] Yahoo reflector

[Grant Youngman]

> about the Orion reflector I decided to join, but, when I found out
> that membership in Yahoo groups was required I hit delete. I have
> enough trouble with spam 

I'm mystified and dumbfounded by this entire discussion.  

So what if there are two groups, or three or four?  The worst that 
happens is you occasionally get a duplicate message if the poster 
sends to multiple groups.

As to Yahoo, I subscribe to a variety of member-only Yahoo groups, 
and get virtually no spam out of that relationship.   The only email 
address I have that gets any spam to speak of whatever is the one I 
advertise on my website, and it is overrun with the stuff -- but that's 
why it's there.

The benefit of the private-have-to-be-a-member groups is that bots 
can't scrape email adresses off of the archives.  And that's also 
good reason to have membership requests checked by a 
moderator.  

On the other hand, THIS list's archive is public and ripe for the 
picking.

This seems to me to be a big whoop over a mighty tiny issue ...

Grant/NQ5T