Re: Virus Groups in Yahoo? The End of Newsgroups

From: WuzzBot (mtnviews_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:44:39 GMT

However, there is no one that can sweep or harvest the userids as they can with NGs.

Yes, no archiving as is available to Google. There is a free archival search
available within each YG. I'd characterize the information as more tightly bound in
YG, but it's certainly available to anyone who can become a member of a YG. It would
be interesting to know the total size of YG. I'd bet in sheer number of groups they
easily outdistance NGs. I suspect the total volume of traffic is larger than NGs,
but I really don't know.

If I'm not mistaken, Yahoo owns the newsgroup archives. I believe they took them
over a few years back from someone else.

For ease of use, I like NGs, but for vulnerability I'd go the other way. For any
individual to be able to easily create a YG is an outstanding feature of YG. The
biggest detraction of YG is advertising.

See my other follow up posting on several virus YG. None on Swen.

                WW

Veronica Loell wrote:

> WuzzBot wrote / skrev:
>
> > Yes, that's true. Membership is declined in some instances if the owner or
> > moderator choose to do so. This happens rarely. I had it happen once for
> > something like a camera group of a specific type. I didn't have the camera but
> > was interested in it. The owner refused to let me in. Fine. His choice.
>
> The problem is not that you might be declined memebership, it is that
> you need to go through the signup process, and of course there is no
> anonomous access to the information, nor is there any general archiving
> such as google. All of this is because of the nature of the groups. All
> of wich is totally unacceptable in a free information environment.
>
> - Veronica

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