Steve, You have had the option to opt out of the phone directory for as long as I can remember. Do libraries still have paper copies? Don't they send you to a computer terminal? I don't even know if a

#misc

Personally I would add a disclaimer after the Avast tag line saying something along the lines of..... ".. later processed by several other systems that could have added a virus".... Dave

#suggestion

Marv, The blocking of several thousand e-mails because a couple of SPAM items gets sent is totally disproportionate. Then as I am sure it, or its users need to white lists gmail, yahoo & Microsoft (Ho

#misc

As Dilbert once said "Industry standard" roughly equates to "average" I am a member of many groups that offer peer support for users of a particular price of free software or are enthusiasts about a p

#update

moved when remained messages I think I was moved automatically as well and initially I got lots on Freegle, but I can't remember when I last saw a Freegle offer. I checked and my account is still acti

#bug

Jim, Where I live, we have both Freecycle and Freegle. Freegle was started in the uk because some folks didn't agree with some Freecycle policies. e.g. Living Creatures are not allowed on Freecycle bu

#bug

Mark, Yahoo also killed moderation and daily digests. So your only option if someone posts in-appropriately is to expel them from the group. Pretty much useless… Dave

#update

Anyone who gets this error should be worried because it means whilst they haven’t been hacked, they are missing root or trusted certificate updates. Whilst this means they may reject valid certificate

#misc

Folks, If you change the subject line you probably intend to start a new thread. The problem is when you mail client changes the subject. In the past, but perhaps not on ”groups.io” I have seen mails

#suggestion

Mark, Yahoo simply allowed “repeat monthly” and “last Tuesday” as an option Dave

#suggestion

Folks, I tend to moderate my groups by E-Mail, and as I live in the UK, often folks post when I am asleep or not monitoring my e-mails. To keep things moving we tend to have multiple moderators, so it

J, Perhaps rather than “limping along” they are now enjoying their newfound freedom. No more moderation, no more having their e-mails modified. Just post and it appears. (for those that don’t know Yah

This link https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/getmydata?result=0 seems to work ok in the uk Dave

Andrew, Like you I didn’t expected to receive content I had not created but some one mentioned on another group they go everything. So I applied and received two ZIP files totalling nearly 3GB contain

Chris, The problem is that the affected person may not be a user of the service that’s messed up. I would however say that there may be a case for filing a GDPR failure against them Dave

Mark, GMAIL also ignores “+” and almost all special symbols. (it didn’t used to), but if moderators, one of whom is on BTINTERNET try and use this to chat to each other , then the results are disastro

Folks, The trouble is when it goes wrong, the effect can be somewhat devastating. When it happened on one of the lists I am on some very personal information about an individual that should not have b

Since when was something being "hopelessly impractical” ever a reason for the EU not to mandate it… … also if you delete your Facebook account all posts, likes, comments will be removed. If Facebook c

Chris, I don’t find that odd at all. I also suspect that because of the way the “btinternet.com” address space is split that the result when sending from webmail may vary depending on which provider i

Duane, One would hope so except It’s the UK equivalent of Ma Bell so its history is that it was the national government telephony provider. As such it created the rules as steps to prevent other compe