> Does the fact that it is hosted on Yahoo have anything to do 
> with that? If I
> were to make the PICList archive open to the public without 
> registration
> ONLY for JAL posts, would that be any better?
> 
> It just kills me to see people put up with all that Yahoo advertising.

[Just my opnion, I'm not the master of the Jallist]

The most heared complaint about the jallist is the spam, not the ads.
Putting piclist:[jal] open for non-subscribers might attract exactly
that!

Wouter van Ooijen

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