ISP Information:
A unique identifier that an ISDN provider's ISDN switch uses to identify ISDN clients. SPIDs are often similar in format to a phone number, but vary between ISDN providers.
ISP Glossary:
Service Protocol Identifier - I appreciate your efforts to start a new list as a Yahoo group. Oneadvantage will be much less spam IN THE GROUP (LIST). However, onceyou cross-post messages from the new group to usenet, the spammerswill mine names from the listings. There is a reason I'm getting 80copies a day of the SWEN virus on this account -- and no other -- andit must be that I use this identity to post on this news group (I useit on only one other list).I also had trouble setting up membership from this account, which isin Britain. I had to set up a US Yahoo account to join the list.All in all, I appreciate your efforts -- and the attractive picture of Lisaon the group's home page -- but I'm not sure it will solve the problemsadministering the group, particularly if you keep the listserv softwarerunning in parallel. You know that there is a web-based interface forlistserv. I'll admit it's clunky, but the listserv software is good.Some advice from someone who has been administering a small group: setup the list so that it does not send attachments. That will keepviruses off the list, and also will cause HTML to be stripped frommessages. HTML can carry viruses, and also causes problems for peoplewho are still reading using Pine or some other old terminal-typereader (there are still some such people!).You can publish this message in the list if you wish. Indeed, you willnotice that I CC'd the new list. However, it's mostly intended foryour eyes.
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