EGroups/Yahoo info. Important!

[~~Kimber <kacoe@xxxxxxx>]

I have looked into this and gotten word from Kirk Scott, the marketing manager of egroups,
and he says that "My personal belief is that eGroups provides appropriate protections
under its TOS, and we have good reasons for maintaining it."

Which means that egroups is sticking by it's Terms Of Service and is in no way modifying
it to comply with Yahoo's terms. Here is an excerpt from EGroups Terms Of
Service..........Basically, what it means is that you give EGroups permission to display
the content you post on the mailing lists. EGroups acknowledges that you own the
copyright of what ever you are displaying and that you are displaying it to other members
willingly.

11. CONTENT POSTED ON THE SERVICE

You agree that upon posting any material within a group on the Service, you grant eGroups,
and its successors and assigns, a non-exclusive worldwide, royalty free, perpetual,
non-revocable license under your copyrights or other intellectual property rights, if any,
in such material to distribute, display, and reproduce such material to other members of
that group. You also grant eGroups the right to authorize the downloading and printing in
whole or in part of any material that you have posted to a group on the Service, by
members for their personal use. You agree to take whatever action necessary to protect
your own intellectual property rights in such Content, including without limitation the
posting of appropriate copyright notices. Please refer to the Company's Copyright Policy
for further information on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

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So relax. At least for now. I'll continue to look in on this issue and keep you all
posted. Hope this can quell some of your fears. In leiu of everything that's going on,
I'm looking into a different account called EScribe. It runs with EGroups nicely, but if
EGroups adapts the Yahoo terms of service, we can make a seemless transition from EGroups
to EScribe.

Th List Mommy has you guys covered. Don't fret. No worries!

Your humble bard and list-mum,
~~Kimber