The “Free Beer” Hangover

“A couple of days ago, I talked about Yahoo’s warning messages
saying my system (Linux) had not been tested with their mail
program and that resulted in a very impassioned plea to help a
group of Yahoo Groups users to protest the changes that Yahoo has
apparently made to the way Yahoo Groups work.

“Changes to the way mailing lists work are nothing new. I am a
member of several Yahoo Groups. But I am also a member of a number
of Google Groups and a mess of mailing lists running on Mailman.
While reading the complaint, I had two thoughts.

“First, I was reminded of comments made by Stormy Peters at
LinuxCon this year. She was talking about Facebook and Google and
by implication Yahoo, when asking us if we were aware of all the
things that these services provide…”

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