[time-nuts] OT: Verilog/VHDL discussion list created...

[Hal Murray]

> What objections are there to Yahoo Groups?

They won't let me see any message bodies unless I accept their cookies.  I'm 
not sure what happens next if I jump through that hoop.

I'm happy to sign-up/register/whatever if I want to sent/post something.  I'm 
not willing to do much to read what others have said.  There is a chicken/egg 
problem here.  How can I tell if the group is interesting if they won't let 
me see anything?

Their servers, their rules.  My eyeballs, my rules.



> Google didn't do anything to usenet.  They did provide a web based
> interface into usenet, and bought the dejanews archive of all
> non-binary groups. 

"Google didn't do anything" is the key part.   In particular, they didn't do 
anything when spammers discovered another free resource to be abused.


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These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's.  I hate spam.