JetScootr, if you're going to post here, you should have at least a tiny clue of what you're talking about.
1) "This is True"'s distribution list has NEVER been hosted at Yahoo/YahooGroups.
2) Yahoo/YahooGroups has NEVER spammed TRUE's distribution list.
3) TRUE has been hosted at Lyris.net for quite a few years now; there has NEVER been spam sent through the list via that service, nor has there EVER been a virus that has gone to the distribution. I take list security VERY seriously, and am fairly outraged that you would post here implications that it is not.
I did, in TRUE, discuss Yahoo's privacy policy. Here it is for you verbatim:
I'VE HAD A BIG SURGE OF "warnings" from readers centering around Yahoo,
who changed all their registered customers preferences to say "Yes",
that they WANTED all sorts of marketing mail, e-mail, and phone calls!
If you have a Yahoo mail account, or anything similar, you probably
should log in and change things to "no" unless you want such mail. If
you use a Yahoo "wallet" for online purchases, they may have associated
your information into these preferences, so you really CAN get more
paper junk mail! My address was indeed shown on MY "preferences", so I
changed it all to the way *I* wanted it. An article with more details:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24683.html . .. THIS MIGHT MAKE YOU WONDER about TRUE's privacy policy. I've had one for
years, long before they got "trendy". The nutshell version is: we hate
spam and carefully protect your e-mail address from others. When you
order stuff from us and we get your snailmail address, we protect THAT,
too, even though we could make good money by selling it -- and that
policy has been in place since 1983. Why? It's quite simply the way *I*
want to be treated by the companies I do business with. The details are
at http://www.thisistrue.com/privacy.html
Next time you want to discuss my business practices, I'd appreciate your doing so accurately.
Randy Cassingham Author and Publisher This is True
I've been ranting about this outrageous "Zero Tolerance" abuse of children by the people we PAY to teach them for a couple of years now, and this is nowhere near the most outrageous story I've seen along this line.
My full rant on this ever-growing trend is available at http://www.thisistrue.com/zt.html -- It's must reading if you have school-aged kids, but don't read it if you're easily depressed....
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JetScootr, if you're going to post here, you should have at least a tiny clue of what you're talking about.
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1) "This is True"'s distribution list has NEVER been hosted at Yahoo/YahooGroups.
2) Yahoo/YahooGroups has NEVER spammed TRUE's distribution list.
3) TRUE has been hosted at Lyris.net for quite a few years now; there has NEVER been spam sent through the list via that service, nor has there EVER been a virus that has gone to the distribution. I take list security VERY seriously, and am fairly outraged that you would post here implications that it is not.
I did, in TRUE, discuss Yahoo's privacy policy. Here it is for you verbatim:
I'VE HAD A BIG SURGE OF "warnings" from readers centering around Yahoo,
who changed all their registered customers preferences to say "Yes",
that they WANTED all sorts of marketing mail, e-mail, and phone calls!
If you have a Yahoo mail account, or anything similar, you probably
should log in and change things to "no" unless you want such mail. If
you use a Yahoo "wallet" for online purchases, they may have associated
your information into these preferences, so you really CAN get more
paper junk mail! My address was indeed shown on MY "preferences", so I
changed it all to the way *I* wanted it. An article with more details:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24683.html
. .
THIS MIGHT MAKE YOU WONDER about TRUE's privacy policy. I've had one for
years, long before they got "trendy". The nutshell version is: we hate
spam and carefully protect your e-mail address from others. When you
order stuff from us and we get your snailmail address, we protect THAT,
too, even though we could make good money by selling it -- and that
policy has been in place since 1983. Why? It's quite simply the way *I*
want to be treated by the companies I do business with. The details are
at http://www.thisistrue.com/privacy.html
Next time you want to discuss my business practices, I'd appreciate your doing so accurately.
Randy Cassingham
Author and Publisher
This is True
My full rant on this ever-growing trend is available at http://www.thisistrue.com/zt.html -- It's must reading if you have school-aged kids, but don't read it if you're easily depressed....