Not good enough research. I don't have time nor the interest to wander
through the group "terms of service and agreement" but these issues have
come up in the past regarding these kinds of companies. For instance
there was an issue over Facebook overreach with regard to owning user
content. IOW, if Doug took Fairfield Life to another group like Google
or Reddit etc Yahoo might have a problem with it though likely not as
FFL isn't even a blip on their radar.
We know that other Fairfield and TM centric groups have come and gone on
the Internet. The only ones that seem to survive are the ones that
expose the authoritarian overreach of the organization.
On 09/17/2016 09:34 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
As I said, Doug is the owner of FFL. "List Owner" happens to be
Yahoo's own term for the individual responsible for a group. Look at
any group "About" page; scroll down to the "Group Email Addresses"
section. The last address is called "List Owner." For FFL, the address
is:
fairfieldlife-ow...@yahoogroups.com
An email to this address will go to Doug.
For The_Peak, it's:
the_peak-ow...@yahoogroups.com
An email to this address will go to Jim.
For the Self-publishing group, it's:
self-publishing-ow...@yahoogroups.com
(Don't know who the owner is for that group.)
And so on. This is standard throughout Yahoo Groups.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
On 09/17/2016 06:31 AM, authfriend@... <mailto:authfriend@...>
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Well, I was going to suggest that we not wait to be "exiled," but
simply pick up and move over to FFL2. The ugly threatening tone
of Doug's recent posts suggests that we don't have any voice in
the matter; he's clearly not interested in entertaining dissent.
Remember, Doug is the owner of FFL, and if he wants to turn it
into a forum that Rick and those of us who have been here for
years wouldn't recognize or find appealing, that's his
prerogative. His recent post indicates that he's huddling with
anonymous folks who have apparently never participated in FFL, so
their concerns don't reflect ours.
(If the name "FairfieldLife Freer Speech" is claimed to infringe
on the "FairfieldLife" brand name so as to preclude our using
that forum for discussions that don't conform to Doug's ideas
about isolating spirituality from the rest of human experience,
I'm sure Alex would be willing to change the name.)
*More likely Yahoo is the owner not Doug. It's probably in the
terms of service. Doug would just be considered "responsible" for
it. It's a "rights" issue and often part of these kinds of
services. Or basically attorneys on steroids creations.
*
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <awoelflebater@...>
<mailto:awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <authfriend@...>
<mailto:authfriend@...> wro! te :
Most of us who are discussing politics are not "trolling," and
it's insulting to suggest otherwise.
Political discussions are "without spiritual context" only if you
put spirituality in a box and wall it off from the rest of human
experience. Rick realized this, and chose not to build such
walls. That's why he didn't limit discussion topics in any way
(other than to exclude pornography).
It looks like we (the non-spiritual cretins that we are) may be
exiled off to FFL-2 if this keeps up...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <dhamiltony2k5@...>
<mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
I am appreciating the comments here about the group.
The trolling of mundane subject threads here posted and!
scrolling ticker-tape style down the subject line with first
lines of posts like one can read on news feeds most anywhere, but
on FFL, a spiritual Yahoo-group, they often do seem to abuse the
freedom of what Yahoo provides us as a group. .
While being entertained by most any and all of content posted
here on FF yet as a responsible member here I am looking at
several who have long method in trolling the site with offered
material that is quite without spiritual context, evidently
unrelated to FFL, a spiritual Yahoo-group. Yahoo asks us for
moderation. I have relied on membership to self-contain
themselves in a moderation according to an inherent civility
entailed the Yahoo-groups guidelines as the means of community
here. Most have been able to write quite well within what is
given to us as the Yahoo-groups guidelines. Those guidelines do
provide really quite wide margins for expression.. Yahoo Groups
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