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To: SI Dave who wrote (24085)	7/15/2006 7:06:13 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 33020

I only lurk one thread over there, so not an active 'feature' user. What they've done with 'read-only' this week is so difficult that I won't even lurk now, let alone sign up for other features. Yahoo did you guys a favour --- could turn into some good business.

To: SI Dave who wrote (24085)	7/15/2006 7:36:45 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33020

dave i have a problem with the cheeky kid handle and the implied patrol feature. thanks. just wanted to let you know. bdbtr.

To: SI Dave who wrote (24085)	7/15/2006 7:53:15 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33020

no, no inbox on yahoo. You setup an alias on yahoo using your yahoo login (your yahoo login is usually an implied yahoo email but not always). So your yahoo login is golfnut@yahoo.com. You get a default message board alias too, with that name but nobody EVER uses that because if you do- its harassment and spam city from all the yahoo nuts. And various scraping services look for emails to spam anyway. So you create an alias under your yahoo id. You can have a whole bunch of these,at least 5. So that is like you having SI Admin(Dave), and any number of other names. Every time you post you select from one of these message board aliases to post. There are some posters on yahoo like one very notorious "Lion King" who has set up tons of aliases on yahoo and simply posts back and forth to himself with this one login to pump up or crash some penny stock. So, the whole problem with yahoo is a lack of accountability really since if somebody is on a stock board and the stock doesn't go their way they just move on with another name somewhere else. In my opinion since the bear market yahoo message boards have become an adult version of myspace with people just killing time. But this update seems to have made things much worse.

To: SI Dave who wrote (24085)	7/16/2006 12:44:52 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33020

I guess some of the ex-Stasi officers, after the collapse of communism -- became web designers: "The new system is more like a dreary maze of hallways and interlocked rooms in a Soviet-style office building. You come in and see a narrow hallway with a lot of labeled doors. Behind some of the doors are the people you want to see, but how to find out which ones? Some of the people you want to see are three rooms away from the hallway." messages.finance.yahoo.com