[arachne] Re: First Post to the New List

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:34:07 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:                   
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> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> In regards to Yahoo, if you own/moderate a group, I would recommend creatin
> g a couple of "disposable" identities that have full owner/moderator capabi
> lities...that way if one identity is terminated for something unknown to an
> yone but Yahoo, you might have the other identities to keep the list going.
> ..experience is a cruel teacher!  Same for web sites on GeoCities...have th
> e same content under multiple identities.  My web sites are gone...except f
> or the backups on my old PC!  I'm now looking for another hosting solution.
> ..I had those Geoities sites and Yahoo address for some 12 years...good thi
> ng nothing irreplaceable was kept there!
> Wiz

> Wizard57M
> Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
> http://members.surfbest.net/wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx/index.htm

I am sorry to say that I could not open the above site...
Regards, Bastiaan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 2/5/2009 4:34 PM
> Subject: [arachne] Re: First Post to the New List

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:26:03 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> I asked Yahoo at least 4 times what the vioaltion was, each time was sent
> b
>> asically the same generic response that the account was terminated for vi
> oa
>> lation of terms of service.  No specific action has been cited, nothing. 
> A
>> fter 4 different "customer service" reps sent the same response, I gave u
> p 
>> and said to heck with Yahoo.  I'm not sure, but I suspect they were unhap
> py
>> because I was not using Javascript enabled, popup laden browsers to handl
> e
>> my mail, group, etc. By way of Arachne and Lynx 386.  Appeal?  Hard to ap
> p
>> eal what you don't know you've been accused of!  Just because my choice o
> f 
>> browsers do not support all the BS sites try to cram down our throats, an
> d 
>> require workarounds to login, should not be reason for termination, but I
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>> an't think of anything else.  I didn't send spam, didn't send that many m
> ai
>> ls...but I sure as heck received a LOT of spam!  Yahoo only became the ho
> st
>> by acquiring Onelists, as well as GeoCities and others.  If my experience
> s
>> are anything like typical, it's no wonder Yahoo is going down the drain.

>> Wiz

> Hmmm... my guess is that their automatic system flagged you for
> something. Any human operators wouldn't know why that happened, or it
> was too much trouble to try to find out.

> Hey, why should they worry about losing one customer? They have
> thousands of others.

> Unfortunately it is the way the whole world is going.

> The answer: make sure you are part of the idiot majority that these
> people know and love.

> OTOH who'd want to go that way.....

> Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
> and remember what peace there may be in silence.
>    "Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.

> ,-./\
> /     \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
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