P3D Re: eGroups.com

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:50 PM 03/09/2000 -0500, CanterMike@xxxxxxx wrote:
>In digest 3779, Peter Davis writes, in part:
>
><< some reason not to move these
>  lists to Onelist.com/eGroups.com?  I can think of many advantages, not
>  least of which is that eGroups.com is currently offering a $500 bonus if
>  you move your large list to their service. >>
>
>Five hundred bucks?  Hmmm, now why would they do that?  How about so THEY can
>spam us?  Or sell the names to spammers?

Both Onelist.com and eGroups.com (now merging) have "no spam" policies, 
which you can read about on their Web sites.  They make their money by 
selling ad space at the bottom of all the outgoing messages.  However, 
these ads are pretty unobtrusive and easy to ignore.

-pd


--------
                                 Peter Davis
                  Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com

              Boycott spammers and other intrusive advertisers!