OOC- yahoo group
Posted byPosted: Sep 5, 2004, 2:03pm
I heard this from someone on another yahoo group- Its very important
so I thought i'd post it here too. Its the first i've heard about it:
"Yahoo is making plans to introduce a premium Yahoo Groups
service. That's great for busionesses and large groups that
have money and want extra bells & whistles. To us (smaller
groups) it means we'll /have/ to pay up, or get cut way
back in services and storage space that we have now.
Yahoo has a survey going on right now, asking Yahoo Groups
users what they would think about this proposed premium
service. Please take this survey and make it clear to Yahoo
that you do not want to pay for groups and that you don't
think any features/storage space should be taken away from
free Yahoo Groups. The big picture is: They want to attract
and make money from the large user groups that salivate
over the extra semi-worthless bells & whistles, and are
willing to lose small groups by the hundreds because they
will not have enough storage room to operate (It will give
them extra server space and bandwidth I suppose).
There is one place in the survey where Yahoo asks you to
write any features you would like to see groups have.
Please use this space to tell them you're against premium
groups.
Tellingly, they have a couple of blanks that ask
specifically where you would go if you closed down your
group and moved it to a different service provider. I typed
in "I'll FIND one!" :)
Here is the URL for the survey:http://sweepstakes.yahoo.com/groupspremiumsurvey2
This is a long survey but if we want to keep our groups
free please fill it out and submit it, we need to have our
voice heard if we want to keep Yahoo Groups Free.Please
pass this along to all of the groups that you belong to.