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Re: Two lists with a common topic
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 2, 18:25 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 2, 18:25 EDT
You wrote: "2. Google list requires registration with Google, having a password etc. (Personally, I hate these registrations and passwords, some other people are indifferent)." NO IT DOES NOT. You can sign up for the list the same way you sign up for any other list. Details here: www.fer3.com/NavList If you want access to the web interface, then you need to think up a password. No other "registration" is required. "3. Google list has advertising and our list does not." NO. Only the web interface has advertising. It is highly specific and barely noticeable. The list itself does not have advertising. "4. No one knows what will Google do with the info you tell him at the registration; it may sell it, for example to those who send spam. It is true, webkahuna might make this too. But SO FAR it did not, and the webkahuna list is already 10 years olf, btw." Maybe you took a wrong turn somewhere, but the only information you really have to give them is an e-mail address. The idea that google might sell your e-mail address to spammers is wildly absurd. Spam lists are primarily generated simply by searching web pages for anything with the format of an e-mail address (string at-sign string). If your e-mail address is on a web site, then you will eventually become a spam target. I notice, Alex, that your e-mail address is on dozens of web sites. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
