Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:59:45 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>,
    "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA Forum versus Kieth Lynch WSFA List
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 3/13/2006 12:15 PM, Ernest Lilley wrote:

>discuss stuff. WSFA is trying something else at the moment, and my feeling
>is that the two efforts are complimentary rather than competitive.

I tripped across another potential problem with WSFA on Yahoo that hadn't
occurred to me before.  It was in relation to another organization that I
belong to that uses Yahoo Groups for a mailing list site, and was having
similar problems with some people being excluded for various reasons.  One
member pointed out that Yahoo Groups has a restriction for "Corporate use"
in its Terms Of Service...i.e. "Corporate use" is prohibited.  Now this
would clearly bar, say, Ford Motor Company from setting up a Yahoo Group
for its owm purposes, but there apparently wasn't an exception made for
non-profit corporations...such as WSFA.  It says "Corporate", not
"commercial" according to what I heard in that other group.  We may well be
in violation of Yahoo Groups TOS by having the WSFA Forum on there.  I
don't know if Yahoo would care, even if they noticed, but it is something
to be aware of if it's true.  I haven't had time since I was made aware of
this aspect to go look at the TOS in detail to verify the claims I saw.

-- Mike B.
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"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back." -- Piet Hein