From jake92028@yahoo.com Wed May 04 03:18:30 2005
Subject:Re: OT: Request for RSS support for this group (attn: Moderator)

Excuse me.. You must be out of your mind! That would be an open
public invitation to massive Spamming extended to all members whose
free email addresses would be available to anyone's Spam marketing
lists! Of course tons of readers would abuse "our" board like they
have every other board they can get to without passwords and logins!

Take a look at some of the Yahoo music groups that haven't figured
out or didn't try to set up spam filters/systems to keep the public
OUT: The only ones that survive, do so by moderating EVERY post which
will cause the group to eventually die from member fatigue and
boredom. You leave a post one day and your message MAY actually get
posted to be read in the next day or so, probably after any weekend,
whenever a moderator feels up to reading it. And any reply MAY
actually get posted in another day or so, again after any weekend.
And in "Open Groups" as soon as the Spam starts to hit, and new
members realize what they've gotten themselves into, all but the
dumbest most naive unsubscribe and get the heck out of there as fast
as they can.

This is THE worst suggestion ever posted here IMO, although I'm sure
your view of the Internet as one big happy family of nice people
wanting to have nice chats with the world at large is a lovely
concept to slightly offset the reality of the other high-90-something
percent majority of Internet users who live in the real world - with
multiple Spam Filters and Pop-Up Blockers, Anti-Virus'ed to the max
behing Firewalls!

Never in a zillon years! ~ Walter j

> out RSS feeds with a program like FeedDemon and see how cool it is.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> AC