Disklavier

Wow!.  The article that you referred to highlights attacks by Ann Coulter:
Coulter exposes liberals' 'Godless religion'  and a series of articles about  Christian ads, anti-deLay, pro Clinton etc articles.  Google took a position saying their funny icons might be construed as disrespectful of days like Memorial or Veteran Day.  Do we really want to get into political discussions about Disklaviers?  (I like the way there is "agreement" that Yahoo looks the other way in allowing pedophile content on its site!  which is worse, political positions pro or con on issues relating to the exercise of free speech  or  positions that  seem to encourage child abuse!)

I would suggest that you decide which site can work best for delivering midi music and disklavier material and go with that site if possible--and leave the discussion of free speech issues/pedophile support off the web page for disklaviers.  Sounds like there are benefits to both sites from a disklavier only point of view that make more sense to discuss.

John in Chicago




 (----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark 
  To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [disklavier] Changing to Google Groups?


  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@cableone.net>> 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?
  > >
  > >
  >
  >
  >