Also, Yahoo groups requires its users to answer a bunch of questions which
are none of their damn business, the better to put them into demographic
slots and market to them.

At 08:17 AM 12/11/2001 -0600, Michael L Gueterman wrote:
>Richard has a good point and let me add another;
>As HP3000-L is mirrored to the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup, you
>have a larger audience available to you there.  Since every post
>is archived by google, you gain a very valuable resource for
>researching future questions.  By fragmenting this discussion
>off to yet another entity, you are making it more difficult
>for people both now and in the future to research this topic.
>Yes I realize that Yahoo archives the posts made to its groups
>as well (as does raven), but you have to know to look there.
>HP3000-L has a long history and will probably be remembered long
>after the OpenMPE Yahoo group is forgotten.
>
>Just my $.02

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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