Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:39:20 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> Cathy wrote:
> > No, I didn't write it.  And yahoo doesn't append without knowledge
> > and consent so your case fails.  Yahoo appends with consent.
>
> So you don't mind whatever statement Yahoo! chooses being falsely
> attributed to you?  So that if someone reads "you" claiming that
> "Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around," and they think
> "I could have sworn that my ISP's was better, but I respect Cathy's
> judgment, so I'll take her word for it," so they switch to Yahoo!
> and get spammed, and decide that your judgment is worthless?  Ok.
> That's your choice.

That line appears a couple of spaces _below_ her sig, just like the even
cornier plugs for Yahoo! services which are appended to postings in
egroups.  If you can't recognize an ad when you see one, getting through a
newspaper must be hell for hyou.

-- Dick Eney