Yahoo did wrong, Yahoo must pay

freecycle.org

boohoo — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:59:17 +0000

I think FreeCycle’s a great thing .. except that they use Yahoo! as a platform:

To: info@freecycle.org

Date: 14-Mar-2006 14:50

Subject: Should FreeCycle support Yahoo?

In view of Yahoo’s recent involvement in prosecution of political dissidents in China, I feel uncomfortable about using its services. A morally motivated initiative such as FreeCycle should shun Yahoo’s practices. Having a network this large move away would definitely send a message across. I suggest freecycle groups be encouraged to migrate to alternative service providers.

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rolling

boohoo — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:23:54 +0000

ok, put a vacation messege on my email, saying ‘please send to my other address, here’s why’

and sent a proposal to switch supplier to a few lists I manage.

and it won’t be easy

boohoo — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:05:29 +0000

severing myself from yahoo.

I have a yahoo email.

I own over 10 yahoo groups.

I’m a memeber of about 50 others.

I have a 360 account, a flickr account, an upccoming account, etc. etc.

(still not sure about purchesed companies, though)

Hello world!

boohoo — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:40:44 +0000

I’ve given it some thought. I decided I should do something. You just can’t ignore bad behaviour just because its a company you used to like. What’s like got to do with companies anyway?

And its really simple. Really, really simple. Yahoo done wrong. We’re Yahoo customers (even if we don’t pay it a penny). We should let it know we disaprove.

So here’s for a campain to change Yahoo’s bad ways. The campain has a blog (here) a Wiki, and a logo:

The Wiki says what you should do.

The blog will tell you what I’m doing.

The logo is for you to put on your site, and link to the Wiki, or to here. Up to you.

go.