[UK-CONTEST] Important message from the UK Contest ReflectorAdministrator

[Peter Reed]

Just my two-pennyworth but, like Dave, I also belong to several Yahoo groups 
including the Elecraft_K3 group and others not related to amateur radio.In 
the past year there have probably been no more than 3 spam emails appearing 
across all the groups and on each occassion, the source has been dealt with 
rapidly and no further emails have been received.

I also set the email to "traditional message preference" when joining a 
group. I don't see any adverts and it all works very smoothly.

As I say, just my two-pennyworth.

73, Peter G4BVH



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: "uk-contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Important message from the UK Contest 
ReflectorAdministrator


>I am on 20 odd Yahoogroups (including the new HF contest one) and spam
> is never an issue - occasionally somebody's email is hacked which
> results in a short burst, but that happens on here as well, it is not a
> Yahoo problem. Mark also assures me that after everybody on here has
> moved over it will be changed to moderated joining which will also keep
> the spammers at bay. And if you set your email to 'traditional' and use
> eg MVPS hosts file when browsing via the web you don't see any
> advertising. Also you don't need to set up a Yahoo profile, you can
> subscribe via email (uk-hf-contesting-subscribe at yahoogroups.co.uk)
> without one (but will miss out on some of the web features).
>
> Come and join us Peter, we would miss your contributions.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> On 4 Nov 2012 at 0:16, Peter Hobbs wrote:
>
>> Not at all happy with this development - signing up to Yahoo leaves one
>> open to spam, unwanted advertising and all the other dross inherent in
>> the so-called social networks.  UK-contest provided a welcome respite to
>> all of this.  I particularly object to even being unable to read
>> contributions unless I sign up to this disaster, which I have no
>> intention of doing, for reasons given.
>>
>
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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