You questioned my terminology. The Yahoo term for the person responsible for the group is List Owner. Doug is the List Owner of FFL. No further "research" needed on that point.
Your post is a non sequitur. We're not talking about who owns user content or moving FFL to another platform. Rather, I was pointing out that Doug, as list owner, can unilaterally decide what type of group he wants FFL to be and enforce that decision, including, e.g., throwing all of us out and adding new members who are more to his liking, banning political discussions, etc. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : 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, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... [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 mailto:fairfieldlife-ow...@yahoogroups.com An email to this address will go to Doug. For The_Peak, it's: the_peak-ow...@yahoogroups.com mailto: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 mailto: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 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto: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 Guidelines https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/guidelines/groups/index.htm -JaiGuruYou Yahoo Groups Guidelines Yahoo Groups helps you connect with groups of people who share your interests and passions. We depend on each member to help keep it a safe, fun, and positive place for everyone. 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