Re: Virus Groups in Yahoo? The End of Newsgroups

From: Wayne Watson (2) (mtnviews_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:36:12 GMT

Interesting about the spamming part. Never heard of Yahoo doing that, but it
could be. I'm not familiar with the term borging. Are you referring to some buy
out of a service by another company, which then changes the disclosure rules of
the bought out company? Yahoo branded browsers cause what difficulty?

"N. Miller" wrote:

> In article <3F9FE2AC.4AE9BD3C@earthlink.net>, mtnviews@earthlink.net says...
> > The YGs are open and free. Many are very well moderated. In some cases too
> > well moderated. The only real catch to them is that you will see
> > advertising. However, it probably won't take long before someone creates a
> > program to enter YGs and knock out the advertising.
>
> The Y-Groups are proprietary, and the proprietor is known to track Web
> surfers traversing their territory; many refuse to play in the Yahoo!
> playground for those reasons. I signed up for DSL service when it was
> provided by the local RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company, I think), only
> to see them first 'borged' by one of the sister companies (Southwestern Bell
> bought Ameritech, Nevada Bell, and Pacific Bell, and changed their name to
> SBC Global...), then contract with Yahoo! to provide content. I refuse to
> use their Yahoo! branded browsers, and switched my browser home page away
> from any form of SBC Global, or Yahoo! nonsense.
>
> Also, Y-Groups, and the Y-Stores have been known to resort to spamming to
> promote their services and products.
>
> --
> Norman
> ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
> ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
> ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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