Thank you phonophoble for starting this group. I think it is important
to keep it going. I use Apple mail and some spam gets past the filter
but not enough to make me want to leave the list.

I've been an OBie musician since the beginning and have a few pieces
still in my arsenal.

Thanks again!

Charlie Massey

On Nov 9, 2007, at 3:50 AM, phonophobie wrote:

> hello nicole, i ´m the owner of this little group. yes...
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> i decided to keep this group open for everyone to join up, because
> it ´s easier for everyone to join and i don ´t have the time to check
> every join request. everytime when i sign in via yahoo i check for
> spam, and i ban those stupid persons and delete the spam messages...
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> however when anybody thinks it could be done better and want, check
> every join request for example, we could do change the ownership if
> this is possible. i have no problem with this. in the past, i just
> wanted to create a group for oberheim gear, because there were no
> active groups anymore...
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> --- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@...> wrote:
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>> Phonophobie is the name of the person who started this list. I'm
> thinking
>> that if we can manage to track down this person, we can either get
> them to
>> reassert list ownership or pass it on to several willing members and
> let us
>> manage it.
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>> The other alternative is to just start a new list. That's a lot of
> work, as
>> it involves digging out all the links, files, photos, and users from
> this
>> list and diverting them to another list. Since the original list
> owner made
>> the members of the list hidden, this is a lot more headache than it
> first
>> looks to be.
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>> Phonophobie is, according to my preliminary web searches, a band doing
>> electronica, and there's a good possibility that the band still has
>> some
>> contact presence somewhere for at least some of the members. Anyone
> up for
>> looking around
>>
>> The spam will continue until we manage to get rid of the open nature
> of the
>> group, and that requires a list owner.
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