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

[Bob Henderson]

I echo the comments from Dave, YMC & Peter BVH.  I too subscribe to
multiple Yahoo groups and have not experienced any spam problems as a
consequence, over many years.  I always opt for "traditional" in the
message preferences.

73 Bob, 5B4AGN

On 4 November 2012 07:42, Peter Reed <plr at cathyandpeter.com> wrote:

> 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@**yahoogroups.co.uk<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
>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> UK-Contest mailing list
>> UK-Contest at contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/**mailman/listinfo/uk-contest<http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest>
>>
>>
> ______________________________**_________________
> UK-Contest mailing list
> UK-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/**mailman/listinfo/uk-contest<http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/uk-contest>
>