Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

You're not the only one that's gettin' grumpy over this! I LIKED e-groups.
Why the F∗∗K did they have to change it?

>This is pissing me off bigtime. I ∗had∗ a Yahoo ID at some point, and I'm
>not really interested in setting up another account. Worse, I am the ∗owner∗
>of an egroups list, and they never even sent me an e-mail telling me how to
>transition to the new system. So my mailing list is essentially held hostage
>until I fill out Yahoo's bullshit form.
>
>The deal is that Yahoo bought egroups and instead of letting the egroups
>interface stand (which was brilliant because they only needed your f∗∗∗ing
>e-mail address, not your freakin' pet's name) they're forcing everyone to
>get one of their precious IDs.
>
>Flaky flaky flaky.
>
>Sorry for the grumpiness--worked the night through,
>
>David.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: elhardt@... [mailto:elhardt@...]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:40 AM
>> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [motm] First pics of my MOTMized Wiard MiniWave
>>
>>
>> mate_stubb@... writes:
>>
>> >>I just uploaded several pics of my beloved Wiard MiniWave
>> in its new MOTM
>> attire:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/motm/files/MOTMized+Wiard+MiniWave<<
>>
>> This seems to be happening a lot lately. Somebody posts a
>> link which I
>> follow, only to run into a page saying "Oops" and asking for
>> me to sign up,
>> resister or enter a password and ID. I don't know what my
>> Yahoo Password or
>> ID is and when I tried to ask what they were a few days ago
>> so I could see
>> how my list preferences were set, that didn't work. What is
>> the secret to
>> getting past the MOTM/Yahoo list barrier? I don't ever
>> remember getting an
>> ID or password when signing up for this list.
>>
>> -Elhardt
>>
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>

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