most are low in membership with little or no activity. why duplicate "
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware " ? granted, i
created a yahoo group for freeware file sharing only because google
groups doesn't do binary (and no yahoo account is necessary) but ...
oh, well we won't go there.

google's nice but lately i'm finding out old stand bys like yahoo or
msn are just as good in most cases and in some cases better than
google. even alta vista has a better image search than google. if
yahoo were to include usenet groups, then what ? google certainly
can't stay atop forever, can it ? Where is the next internet dragon to
slay ?

unless somone can point me to a better service, i dare say that Yahoo
Groups outshines Google Groups (not in terms of usenet but in terms of
creating your own group) by a thousand to 1 although google is good in
other areas where yahoo isn't.

Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
What I don't understand is why use a proprietary board instead of usenet?

My experience with Yahoo in general and Yahoo Groups in particular have
been that they're a bit abusive.

Please explain why it's worth it.

Thanks.

Richard

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:49:37 -0700, in alt.comp.freeware RE: Re: wow!
the number of freeware groups on Google Groups is amazing!!! Richard
Steinfeld <rgsteinBUTREMOVETHIS@sonic.net> wrote:

Please explain what you mean by "abusivie".

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See the A.C.F alternative FAQ at http://stalkingsheep.co.uk/antifaq.htm
In an unmoderated NG you can control what you read and what you write.
That's all you can control.

abusive ? how ? as far as being a subscriber to a group or an owner ?
the nice ting about yahoogroups where it outshines google (and msn) is,
if necessary, a chat room (msn has one but google doesn't), link
sharing (msn has but not google), file sharing (msn has but limited
where google doesn't have at all) and a few other features. from a
group owners standpoint those are pluses but from a normal subscribers
standpoint maybe not.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:49:37 -0700, Richard Steinfeld wrote:

Moderation
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"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in a
moral crisis." Dante

On Wed 29 Jun 2005 03:44:24, Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
<news:an24c1d9prlhu6fuvf2v7qeo751bgslhhs@4ax.com >

What is name of the good Yahoo freeware group?

Maxx Pollare wrote:

Yahoo groups work well if you access them via email.
Set up groups in your email program for different discussion groups,
mailing lists. Set up filter which sort incoming messages to the
appropriate groups.

But you will never find the most advanced philosophy in the world in a
moderated discussion group.

Philosophy needs freedom like a boat needs water.

You can find the most advanced philosophy in usenet, but it is buried
under tons of crap, so you need to know what you are looking for.

Check out my messages in sci.electronics.design over the last week.
If you want more advanced philosophy than that you'll have to think it
out yourself.

alt.philosophy is the newsgroup where the best philosophers should be,
but there are a lot of people there who like to think they are
philosophers just because they are interested in the subject.

They find some pet theory or ideology which seems to justify their
lifestyle, and they keep repeating their magic phrases over and over.
You can find very advanced philosophy in alt.philosophy, but there
is a lot of other stuff there too. I haven't been active in
alt.philosophy for a few years, because of the high volume per day.


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Roger J.

"Roger Johansson" <no-email@no.invalid> wrote in
<news:xn0e49vccssh3a001@news.sunsite.dk>:

I disagree. No matter which of my reliable e-mail addresses I tell
Yahoo! to send to, Yahoo! cuts off delivery every couple of months. I
then have to use their web interface to change my settings back the way
I want them. Also, after each cut-off, Yahoo! waits a week to notify
me that they've stopped sending my mail, and they provide no way for me
to view the ones I've missed other than via their web pages.

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»Q«

Maxx Pollare wrote:

Texts about social and psychological stuff, the history of idologies
and ideas, creationism and humanism.
http://humanist.250free.com/

Texts about economics and politics.
http://hem.passagen.se/rj77/

My texts about common historical philosophical issues are published in
alt.philosophy. Issues more traditionally known as philosophy.
These texts alone inspired a philosophical magazine to ask me if they
could use my ideas as the philosophical platform for the magazine.

My definition of philosophy was one of the important texts in
alt.philosophy discussions a number of years ago.


--
Roger J.

no one wrote:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freefiles


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Woodzy

http://www.rtdos.com (alt OS for games based on the classics)
http://rtdos.com/community.htm ( retro computing community )

Franklin wrote:
not perfect, but better than some, esp. MSN Groups and AOL Groups

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Woodzy

http://www.rtdos.com (alt OS for games based on the classics)
http://rtdos.com/community.htm ( retro computing community )