>I recall that yahoo was thinking about removing the trailer for an
>annual fee, but have not heard of it since. Now that would be
>something worth contributing to!

A Yahoo List I am on did this, IIRC it cost about US$100 per year.

On the whole the Yahoo lists seem to work well, but do tend to get hit by
the porn sellers of this world who subscribe to a whole heap of lists and
try and send mails. The moderators need to set it up so that a new member
needs to have their first message or two moderated before they can send
without the moderator being involved to stop heaps of these getting through.

The other problem is that it will not be possible (AFAIK) to have message
filtering like the MIT server does, so everyone will get everything,
irrespective of a desire to not have things like OT posts, which will turn
off a few members from joining it. I would welcome a correction on this.

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