The Yahoo!Groups Laments

If you are a member of any Yahoo!Group, or any email group for the matter, you'll know what I mean.

• Nearly 20 emails might flood your inbox with single worded replies and smilies, (sometimes with no messages at all) overnight.
• Most of the content of the email would make one think 'why do I care?'.
• From a common email, with a common content, and a common subject line.....one might also receive personal email conversations, with completely irrelevant or totally unintroduced content, BUT with the SAME (!#$@%^&*$#%) subject line.
• The new person who joins a group, somehow feels part of the group if he/she forwards the mails about poor little girl Cindy, who has every organ failed in her body, or the mails stating 'It is True! Microsoft and AOL will pay me $XXX for every person I forward this mail to', or the mail detailing the ill effects of cola, or the one with the wonderful illusions. But one ends up receiving the same set of forwards EVERYTIME a new member joins the group.
• A mail is sent to a Yahoo!Group by John Doe-I. (Due to some setting) When the reply button is hit, the reply still goes to the group and not to John Doe. Here comes the VERY personal response from John Doe-II!!!
• And then comes another mail from John Doe-II, with the subject line: 'Previous mail was personal response to John Doe-I: please ignore: Sorry about the inconvenience'. Now! Not only do I have 2 (may be 3) mails that in no way concern me sitting in my inbox, but John Doe-II has tempted me to open the personal email and see 'What can be SO personal that he will send another mail asking me not to read it'.
  

With all my lamenting, why be in a group at all? And miss out on all this fun and 'mis'communication? No way! 8-)

PS. (Message to my very few loyal readers) There's a reason I haven't been posting regularly lately... I have had a case of severe writer's block, but have been enjoying the 'clicker's flow' and have been very busily updating my Photoblog. Do pop in once in a while 8-)