Ed WA4YIH wrote: > No. > > Yahoo has to make their money somehow. Advertising is their forte.
Randy KF0X wrote: > Maybe I am missing something here or did not see it in a previous > post, but the solution is to simply join Yahoo. It is so amazingly > simple, I certainly must be missing something here. If I did miss > something, my apologies. > > [Moderator: If you are receiving this list via text email, it can > seem like a lot extra on the end, but it is what it is...] Interestingly - the last few messages that have come through on this list are now a lot less bloated and are <large grin> in text versus HTML format - from the headers in recent messages: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII They used to come through as: >> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >> boundary="NGrEjRhkryGLwebsECen-1ZK96ghFxjUACn3nn6" (of course the boundary would be different for each part in each message). I don't know if this was a change someone made on my behalf or if for the entire list; either way thanks for the effort. As for joining Yahoo! - or more accurately getting a Yahoo! ID or account ... I'd prefer not to. I see no reason to provide a name, birth date, QTH and other info to Yahoo! ... or having Yahoo! dumping cookies on my system and monitoring my activities ... and I don't want a yahoo.com email address. Snippets from the Yahoo! Privacy Policy at: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html >> When you register with Yahoo! and sign in to our services, >> you are not anonymous to us. >> Yahoo! uses web beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside >> and outside our network of web sites and in connection >> with Yahoo! products and services. http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/webbeacons/ Ed's comment is on the money - but only part of it. Yahoo! makes their money in areas beyond just serving up ads off of their web sites ... and some of this is noted in the aforementioned links I cited above. Sorry for getting off topic - having made (like many of you) a major investment in D-STAR infrastructure I want to learn and grow with the rest of the community. My original request was for some assistance in reducing the size of messages received on these Yahoo! (supported?!) lists ... which also helps because when you are searching your own archive you don't get hits on all the (unrelated) stuff appended to postings by Yahoo! Whatever was changed ... I'm quite happy with that - it should do. Bob McCormick W1QA
