Subject: [WSFA] Re: This list
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 15:20:23 -0400

On 2020-03-08 15:10, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> Stan Field <e.c.field at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to know the GoogleGroups address so I can join.
>
> The list address is ewsfa at googlegroups.com.  I think you can subscribe
> by sending an email to ewsfa+subscribe at googlegroups.com.  If that
> doesn't work, write to samlubell at dmarc-verizon.net and ask him to subscribe
> you.  Either way, you'll get an email with a code in it that you have
> to mail back, to make sure that a prankster isn't signing you up
> without your permission.  All emails are from "ewsfa+" followed by
> gibberish, so if you whitelist, be sure to either whitelist that
> prefix or whitelist the whole of  at googlegroups.com.
>
>> I would have rather they gone to MeWe since Google is just as bad,
>> if not worse, than Yahoo as far as privacy is concerned.
>
> I don't know everyone's reason for avoiding Yahoo, but my reasons
> were:
<snip>
I believe Yahoo groups is shutting down.

  mark