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Jeff Liebermann wrote:

I won't say anything nice about Yahoo Groups.

Nor will I.

I just received yet another mailing from a moderator apologizing
for lost messages, missing files, corrupted indexing, etc. It has
been getting worse since the massive UI rewrite of about 3 years
ago, which removed useful features, added considerable
advertising, and broke just about everything that was left.

I subscribe to the KX3 Yahoo group. The solution is neither to read them
nor to post to them using a web browser. Once one is subscribed which as
far as I can tell does require use of a web browser, you can arrange for
postings to be seen in plain text and sent to you as e-mail either in
digest form or (as I prefer) individually. If you use a good e-mail
program (best I've seen and still use is the Mac version of Eudora, but
it quit working at about Mac OS 10.9 if I recall; nor problem since I do
almost everything using 10.6.8) you can set up a mailbox to grab all
incoming mail from an individual Yahoo group and you can look at it when
you see fit; the mail goes into my KX3 mailbox, not my general In box.
I've got my KX3 mailbox set up so as to sort by Subject, so all the
items in a given thread appear together, oldest at the top. If a thread
is of no interest I can Shift-click and delete the whole thread, or what
has already arrived in it. If I don't want ever to see anything from
VE7EZM (that's my call, so I won't offend anyone by using it as an
example) Eudora is wonderful for filtering things, as is MT-NewsWatcher.
To post something I just use Eudora to send e-mail to the Yahoo KX3
group. No fuss, no muss, no ads, and the only time I have to use the
browser is if someone posts a graphic.

You do have to use a real, old-fashioned e-mail program to do things
like this. The closest imitation among currently supported ones (but
it's a pale imitation) is Thunderbird. When the day comes that I have to
use a more advanced operating system than 10.6.8, I'll just run 10.6.8
under it in a virtual machine and thus be able to keep Eudora and lots
of other good things that won't work with 2015 system software.

I do the same thing with the QRP-L group and Eudora, but that's not a
Yahoo group.

Web browsers are for web browsing and using them for mail or news or to
bake a cake is unwise.

David, VE7EZM and AF7BZ

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David Ryeburn

To send e-mail, change "netz" to "net"