Tony had a good idea - the venue is a bit off though.

Yahoo, AltaVista, and all the others put these things up to collect names
and e-mail addresses, as well as other demographic information.  Advertising
is what keeps them in business, which is why you can get an e-mail account
and webspace for free from some or all of these companies.

If it's chat we want, there are a few of us who have this capability inhouse
and can host it.  (For example, we have both Microsoft IRC and an iChat
server here - IRC is the grandaddy of internet chat and can be set up as a
public IRC server - not here though - or a private IRC server.  iChat is
web-based chat).

Unfortunately, you will not see me subscribing.  I know that my information
makes it to Usenet (via the gateway) - but the less my information is
exposed, the better, and I really don't want Yahoo! or any of the others to
know much about me.  Heck, I even have "ad.doubleclick.net" and a few others
in my "hosts" file listed as 127.0.0.1 so that I don't see their ads, and
they don't see anything about me :)

Best Regards,
Joe

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