Yahoo groups

[dehusman]

Normally the moderator can configure the sign in settings to keep out spammers.

And the vast majority of the threads and posters are on topic. They also tend to be more focused and specific. Since they don't keep posting stats that cuts out all the "I've got 100 posts" garbage threads and the nasty flame wars that erupt on these relatively unmoderated lists get quickly squelched and the flamers put on moderated status or kicked off. Makes for a much more civil and informative discussion.

If you want to chit chat this is a great forum. If you want detailed info and in depth discussions of specific topics, go to Yahoo groups.

Dave H.

[SSW9389]

I belong to 38 Yahoo Groups and moderate the one for my local model train club. I have not experienced any major problems with spam on these list. As stated before check your settings. There is a lot of information in those Groups.

[darth9x9]

Yes, [e-mail] is place for operations and rail industries. But be aware, there can be up to 50 posts a day.

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

MR Groups I'm in:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themodelrailroadersclub/

Dougal,

There's only 8 members in that group!

[ClinchValleySD40]

I'm in 51 of them. Nice that they are usually more specialized than a general chat group like this one. And going the no email route and reading messages at your leisure is the best way to go.

[Jetrock]

I am on quite a few railroad-related Yahoo-groups: SacNorthern, WPlist (Western Pacific), Sacramentovalleyrailhistory, small-layout-design, and a couple trolley-related groups (including Sacramento Light Rail.) I am a member of HOn30 but only read it occasionally as I am not currently an HOn30 modeler.

[jfugate]

If the yahoo group itself gets spam emails posted to it, then you should request that the group be moderated. That will kill any spam to the group itself.

As to spam in your own email, follow the recommendations above to go into your yahoo profile and *turn off* all the promotional options.

And get a non-free email account. Spammers have your number, so to speak, if you have a free email account, because that's where the masses hang out. A good place to go for a non-free email is:

http://www.netidentity.com/

Your email account will cost you about $25 a year, and you might even be able to get one that matches your name so it's easy to remember. Mine's [e-mail] ... makes it really easy for folks to remember it.

The recommendations above to go get SpyBot and Adaware are excellent ones. They will squash most of your popup ad garbage.

And finally, go check out the Mozilla browser. See:

http://www.mozilla.org/

This browser has built-in popup management, will automatically import all your Internet Explorer settings, favorites, and cookies, so it will feel like you never even left IE and you won't get nearly as much internet garbage! I love it! The spammers target IE, but they don't bother with browsers like Mozilla.

The Yahoo Groups are just too good to pass up. With a little wise internet safety management on your system, the spammers won't be able to find you, and life will be good!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

I have a group called The Model Railroaders Club.

Here's a link, we need more members:

www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/themodelrailroadersclub

Thanks for posting your Yahoo group'. I have joined.

Jaime

[Junctionfan]

Yes; modelintermodal. It is a great group for everything that has to do with intermodal both model and real life.

[Anonymous]

MR Groups I'm in:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASNrailfan/ I own this one.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CONRAILmodeler/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themodelrailroadersclub/

All of the rest are prototype RR groups.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bcammack

Yahoo groups are not a hassle. You have to go to your account settings and turn off all of the marketing preferences. You need to view your groups via the Yahoo Groups web interface and not use it as a mail list server. If you do these two things you will have no problems with Spam. I belong to five groups that I access in that fashion with no spam problems at all.

I'm using the same settings, no problems here!

[Noah Hofrichter]

I belong to the WSOR yahoo groups, really a nice group with plenty of WSOR information. And now I belong to Jon's too.

Noah

[bcammack]

Yahoo groups are not a hassle. You have to go to your account settings and turn off all of the marketing preferences. You need to view your groups via the Yahoo Groups web interface and not use it as a mail list server. If you do these two things you will have no problems with Spam. I belong to five groups that I access in that fashion with no spam problems at all.

[slotracer]

I used to belong to a few, some slot car related, some on other issues, a few on trains, but the spam and po ups was more of a pain that the groups wwere worth. I opted for no email, look at messages on the site and changed all my marketing preverences and still got over 50 junk emails a day. The ppoint they made about every 4th message path trough a pop up you had to click on made up my mind to dump it all. Not Worth it.

[on30francisco]

Yes. I belong to The On30 Conspiracy and The Weathering Groups.

[aegis2]

I belong to about a dozen Yahoo groups, not all train related. I don't like the individual message format. Is there a way to link the threads, rather than look at each message or expanding the messages? Because of this I only visit Yahoo once or twice a week.

I have my preferences set so I get no e-mails and I haven't received any spam from them.

[dehusman]

Actually the Yahoo Groups are lot more focused for the most part than the MR forum. There is about 10-20 times more pure chat and drivel on the MR forums, more actual accurate information on the Yahoo Groups, at least the ones I subscribe to. Plus on the Yahoo groups you can post pictures and plans for comments etc. Much more versatile than the MR forum. Since there are no "stars" so you avoid thirty threads of people congratulating each other for having high frequent poster miles. Many of the groups are moderated so you don't have the flame wars so common around here. If you take the time to set it up right, you won't get spam, but will get better info on more focused topics.

Dave H.

[mikebonellisr]

From all indications above,it seems like the yahoo groups are more of a hassel than thier worth...too bad!

[orsonroy]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarCards
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CIRPO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DCC-Sound
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitrax
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMOHS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HOsteam
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/illinois-central-model
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/illinois_terminal_rr
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/illinoiscentral
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Interurbans
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/McKinleyLines_IllinoisTraction
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NKP
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nkp587lightmike
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NKPHTS-members
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NScaleSteam
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC-Railroad
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCmodeler
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ohiocentral6325
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PENNSYmodeler
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PennsyWest
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeoriaRails
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PRR
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PRR-n_scale
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QSIndustries
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/repowerandregear
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRResearch
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/steamloco
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Toledo_Peoria_and_Western_RR
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tpw_rr
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wagrailroad
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yooperrails

Plus about a dozen that have nothing to do with trains. I used to belong to more, but I drop out occasionally to keep from getting swamped with emails.

Yahoo Groups are one of the best real RR research tools online today.

[Anonymous]

Most of the spam etc people get is from cookies that have been installed on your hard drive. I use Spy Bot and Adaware and am fairly vigilant with using them. I get very little spam or pop ups. You need to be aware that you can go to a site and have a pop up that didn't originate at that site.

Download Adaware, its free and do lots of updates. Go to your cookies and delete almost all of them, you only need a few. Go to your "temporary cookies" file and delete everything there. Adaware will also discover some of the spy ware stuff that is in your computer bringing you the junk... a very good value adaware is when you consider it is free.

In fact, you can delete all your cookies but it means you will have to resign in to the forums you belong to.

Go to "tools" at the top of your screen, then "internet options", then to delete cookies - this will get rid of your temporary cookies only.

Then tab on "start" , then "find", then type in cookies, and that will take you to your cookies file, and start deleting. Some of you will be at it for hours... lol.

If you're lazy, run adaware first which will get rid of many cookies, then delete the rest.

[CBQ_Guy]

I am a bit prejudiced towards Yahoo groups in that I started there when I first had online capability around four or five years ago. It's only in the last several months, since I got the new, "real" computer and a cable broadband connection, that I have the speed to realistically even start checking out these forums. I sincerely believe that I have gotten the most useful info, and the least "fluff" in the Yahoo groups.

I receive the digest versions so don't get a lot of the crap and virus', etc. others have mentioned.

I just checked and I am on 95 lists, all but one relates to trains and model railroading, so I guess I qualify as a "satisfied customer".

[Anonymous]

When you join a group make sure you choose NO EMAIL, I'm the head of some groups and almost all choose to get email! I don't trust Yahoo itself AT ALL!!! They send me SPAM before I even thought of joining! When I joined and selected NO EMAIL the junk stopped.

[Anonymous]

I have a group called The Model Railroaders Club.

Here's a link, we need more members:

www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/themodelrailroadersclub

[Anonymous]

At one time I really liked their groups. Now it is a big hassle to use them due to all the ads they have that pop up. Every third or forth message you read has an ad pop up.

RMax

[Anonymous]

Another tip. Make sure your anti-virus is up to date. Every time I log onto Yahoo I get a notification from my anti-virus that it has quaranteened one or more infected internet temp files.

Randy

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by robmik

There are so many Yahoo groups you may find it a full-time situation.

WARNING: I dropped out of all Yahoo groups due to the massive amount of SPAM and PORN that started coming in, in droves, within a few days of my signing on.[V]

My SPAM and antivirus blockers were very busy quarantining this junk....up to 60 messages a day.[V]
When I signed off the Yahoo, the junk faded away fairly quickly...my SPAM blocker only has to quarantine about 10 junk messages a day now....and no more porn at all. [8D]

This may not happen to you. I know of others who experienced the same problems as I did.
regards;
Mike

It did not happen to me. I started more than a month ago and got NO spam.

[nfmisso]

QUOTE: Originally posted by areibel

There are a couple ways around the Yahoo spam problems- Go to "My Groups", then "My Account". Scroll down , you'll see a link to "Edit your MArketing Preferences".
Hit it, then go in and check "No" on all the items listed, including contacting by mail or phone. This alone took care of probably 80-90% of the spam I was getting. Yahoo automatically assumes you want all this valuable information, and if your profile indicates you're over 18 you'll get hammered with it.
Alternately, use a Hotmail or different Yahoo address (or similar) in your profile just for the profile, set all your accounts to "no email" and read the messages on the website.

And click on E-mail Preferences on the My Groups page, and turn off the two items in there.

[Anonymous]

areibel :
Thanks for the Yahoo spam-blocker tips.
regards;
Mike

[areibel]

There are a couple ways around the Yahoo spam problems- Go to "My Groups", then "My Account". Scroll down , you'll see a link to "Edit your MArketing Preferences".
Hit it, then go in and check "No" on all the items listed, including contacting by mail or phone. This alone took care of probably 80-90% of the spam I was getting. Yahoo automatically assumes you want all this valuable information, and if your profile indicates you're over 18 you'll get hammered with it.
Alternately, use a Hotmail or different Yahoo address (or similar) in your profile just for the profile, set all your accounts to "no email" and read the messages on the website.