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

[Peter Hobbs]

Many thanks all for their comments and reassurance - it's much 
appreciated!  Do I understand that postings to this group can be caused 
to arrive at my mail inbox, as at present, without me having to actually 
visit the Yahoo site, unless I want to see the "web content"?

73, Peter G3LET

Bob Henderson wrote:

>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.
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>73 Bob, 5B4AGN
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>On 4 November 2012 07:42, Peter Reed <plr at cathyandpeter.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>----- 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
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>> I am on 20 odd Yahoogroups (including the new HF contest one) and spam
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>>>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
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>>>On 4 Nov 2012 at 0:16, Peter Hobbs wrote:
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>>> Not at all happy with this development - signing up to Yahoo leaves one
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>>>>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.
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>>>http://www.davesergeant.com
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