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Re: [disklavier] Changing to Google Groups?

2007-03-21 by Mark

I agree with the comment about Yahoo 'looking the other way' and 
allowing pedophile oriented content. Here is the article about Google. 
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52947
There are other articles that parallel this report.

Mark in Idaho

Carl Youngblood wrote:
>
> I actually hadn't noticed this.  Are you sure that they changed their 
> logo for Canadian Memorial Day but not US Memorial Day?  Can you point 
> me to a reference corroborating this?  Is Yahoo any better?  They have 
> done a lot of annoying things in the past, including looking the other 
> way when they knew that their forums were being used for predatory 
> advances on minors.
>
> I think Google is a tremendous innovator and has a much nobler 
> attitude than many other US industry leaders.  They are doing a lot of 
> humanitarian work in the world as well.  And they understand that they 
> will have more success if they don't annoy their customers with crass 
> pop-up ads and huge banners all over the place, like Yahoo has done 
> and in some ways continues to do.
>
> On 3/21/07, *Mark* <MarkGMID@... 
> <mailto:MarkGMID@...>> wrote:
>
>     Some of us may have objections to the Google world philosophy. They
>     refuse to recognize the good ole US of A with any semblance of
>     honor or
>     respect. They refuse to note any of our national historical holidays
>     like Memorial or Veterans Day. They will make their Google mast head
>     green for Saint Patrick's Day and recognize Canadian Memorial Day but
>     take a very proactive anti-American position. Is this acceptable
>     to DUG
>     members?
>
>     Mark in Idaho
>
>
>
>     Carl Youngblood wrote:
>     >
>     > Has anyone here ever considered changing the disklavier group
>     over to
>     > Google groups? The feature set at Google is now on par with Yahoo
>     and
>     > their interface is a whole lot less annoying and more
>     customizable, in
>     > my opinion. You can also take all the current subscribers and paste
>     > them into the Google interface in one fell swoop, so the transition
>     > doesn't need to be difficult.
>     >
>     > What do you guys think about the idea?
>     >
>     >
>
>
>

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