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"Ray" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Post what you feel is relevant and the rest of the group will enjoy. Exchange pics of the day out
or your route track recorded by your GPS. Ask for help and give some help if you can. Just make
the group a nice place

to

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visit without all the discourse you see on other groups. I hope it becomes

a

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well used group. Log on at: groups.yahoo.comcyclingmemoriesOpen ↗

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All power to your elbow BUT I'm afraid I shall not be joining as it requires registration with Yahoo
which, on past experience, results in massive amounts of Spam, however hard you try with spam traps
etc. Having just overhauled all my e-mail addresses and created some specific domain/addresses for
"junk sites" I think I have Spam sort of under control.

RG

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Hi Ray,

I've joined! I hope we get lots of members soon. I think it could be a good NG - maybe plan a
few rides.

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mule said:

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Hi Ray,

I've joined! I hope we get lots of members soon. I think it could be a good NG - maybe plan a
few rides.

It can never be a good NG , it's not a newsgroup, it's a web based forum.

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Besides which I don't really care what it is.

It could be good to share photos and files, which is something that this NG can't do. A good place
to share such information.

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It can never be a good NG , it's not a newsgroup, it's a web based forum.

It's actually a Group, according to Yahoo. Besides, forums are categorized, wheareas NG aren't.

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"Ray" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Log on at: groups.yahoo.comcyclingmemoriesOpen ↗

All power to your elbow BUT I'm afraid I shall not be joining as it requires registration with
Yahoo which, on past experience, results in massive amounts of Spam, however hard you try with spam
traps etc.

I use a few of the Yahoo groups (some since they were e-groups) I have never ever received any spam
to the addresses used in these groups (which are specific to each group) - I don't use the Yahoo
email system, or other parts of the service which may cause problems but the Yahoogroups stuff has
not caused be any problems.
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It can never be a good NG , it's not a newsgroup, it's a web based forum.

It's actually a Group, according to Yahoo.

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Besides, forums are categorized, wheareas NG aren't.

~Well they are categorized in a way - they are organized in hierarchies, and by their name - I don't
find it difficult to find a relevant group when I need to using my newsreader.

It's also worth noting (some people don't realise) that the Yahoo Groups web forums are effectively
web front ends onto mailing-lists. You can read and post messages via email which I personally find
much more convenient.

1 - it's quicker than reading posts on a web page - I find that to much to slow

2 - you don't get the Adverts that you get when reading on the web.

3. You don't have to be online - not a problem for me with Broadband but maybe for some one on
dialup (when it even slower anyway....)
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In message <[email hidden]>, RG <[email hidden]> writes

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All power to your elbow BUT I'm afraid I shall not be joining as it requires registration with
Yahoo which, on past experience, results in massive amounts of Spam, however hard you try with
spam traps etc.

I use a few of the Yahoo groups (some since they were e-groups) I have never ever received any
spam to the addresses used in these groups (which are specific to each group) - I don't use the
Yahoo email system, or other parts of the service which may cause problems but the Yahoogroups
stuff has not caused be any problems.

Ditto. I get the occasional post from Yahoo itself and nothing else.

Colin

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Lucky you :-) Yahoo groups have resulted in yours truly getting inundated with spam. As a result,
I too will not join any yahoo group ever again - however interesting the topic of the group.
Shame really.

If you have a Yahoo account it should get rid of the spam for you. Otherwise in Outlook it's very
easy to set up a simple spam filter. Or if you're very paranoid, you can buy spam filter software,
though I'm told there are ones for free too.

I'm a member of about a dozen Yahoo groups and get no spam at all. { blisterlodge cyclingmemories
gps-v Magellan_Meridian Magellan_Meridian_Fr Mapsend mountainbikeintheuk sportrakgps stolenbike-uk
walkingUK wirelesslan }

Let me know if you need any help.

=o]

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"RG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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All power to your elbow BUT I'm afraid I shall not be joining as it

requires

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registration with Yahoo which, on past experience, results in massive amounts of Spam, however
hard you try with spam traps etc. Having

just

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overhauled all my e-mail addresses and created some specific domain/addresses for "junk sites" I
think I have Spam sort of under

control.

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Well, I get megaloads of spam, most of which I'm able to kill with filters, and I do belong to some
Yahoo groups, but I'm sure it doesn't all come grace of Yahoo. In fact I suspect very little of it
does, judging by the type of
it. Spam seems to be an unpleasant fact of life - it doesn't mean you have to stop doing things
which might potentially be interesting.

Rich

"Ray" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Post what you feel is relevant and the rest of the group will enjoy.

And I did! Even posted some piccies of my good self so others can put a face to the name.

Pete

Well I thought it would be a good idea for exchange of photos and GPS cycle tracks. Didnot think it
would open up such controversy otherwise I would have steered clear and justset up an alternative
site that most approved off. I am they very one that has in the past suffered from spam mail on a
serious level. I have now, hopefully got it under control and if Yahoo is the devil you say it is
then watch this space 🙂 Anyway nice to see people being sensible and doing what they think is
safe. Its a weird world out their but there is still many things to wonder at. Have a good trip
next time out and if anyone wants I can give them an alternative web space to post photos to (
without sign up). Ray
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Didnot think it would open up such controversy otherwise I would have steered clear and justset up
an alternative site that most approved off.

Only things in life you can be sure of... death, taxes & not being able to please all the people all
the time ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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