[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: ADMIN: Possible Threat to the HPFGU Family of Lists

[Kathryn Cawte]

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> bboy_mn:
>
> Well, I'll let Iggy speak of himself, but I think you missed the
> point. Whether we are adults or not is irrelevant. When Yahoo recieves
> a complaint they don't waste any time investigating it. Mostly
> because, given the many thousands of groups they host, they don't have
> time to investigate.
>
K

And therein lies the flaw in Iggy's plan. yahoo have a habit of deleting
groups *without checking*. It doesn't matter whether the thread mentioned is
active, inactive or never existed in the first place. *They don't check*. If
I thought they would have a look at the group when they got a complaint -
then it *might* be a good suggestion (although I think closing down threads
that don't violate any rules just because someone could interpret them that
way is pointless and a good way to kill any interesting discussion), however
yahoo have a nasty habit of getting a complaint and *assuming* it's valid
and then going ahead and deleting lists - and btw when they do so they
delete *all* lists owned by the owner of the 'offending' list. Except of
course in the cases where they ignore complaints totally and do nothing.
*shrugs* uh yeah where I was going with that last bit is - are all the
HPfGUs lists listed under the same owner? Because at least if they weren't
there wouldn't be as much chance of them *all* suddenly vanishing due to a
malicious complaint.

Yahoo management are somewhat capricious in their decisions.

K