__/ [ Geoff ] on Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:51 \__
> I have not looked at yahoo for a while but I wonder if they have been
> threatened with lawsuits?
>
> Their chatrooms are completely stripped, worthless, actually and the
> message
> boards for companies are highly filtered. The messages they allow to be
> posted are things you can read in the headlines for that company anyway.
>
> Is it the latest thing to threaten these sites with lawsuits if they do not
> start filtering out everything?
I came across a lawsuit story yesterday:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/09/BUGBRINUJR1.DTL
Lawsuits say Yahoo violated ad deals
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| Yahoo Inc. has been sued for allegedly overcharging clients by farming
| out their online advertisements to purveyors of spyware and other
| malicious Internet destinations.
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However, this does not seem to relate to your concern.
Best wishes,
Roy
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