Community Action planned

I have decided to DELETE all my y!webrings on January First, 2001.
(01/01/01). It might benefit me to some small degree to keep the y!webrings active - but I think it's an important statement to make to
destroy them.

I think it would be great for us webring managers to team up and do a
UNITED web action on 010101 / and all delete our y!webrings on the
same day - As well as send out a press release and write letters to the
editor for our local newspapers to be printed 01/01/01 - January 1st, 2001

If anyone would be interested in doing this with me - please e-mail me at
  marinerdc@aol.com

David

010101 Campaign: Delete your Y!Webring January 1st

Comments by Ringmasters posted in Clubs:

One point four million Web Sites
After reading close to 6000 posts in at least 15 different clubs, lists, usenet, etc over the last two weeks I still feel that there is a great deal that requires perhaps even more discussion, this is not the kind of situation that should get "the light treatment". From my understanding of the reality at least 80,000 rings with some 1,400,000 Websites are involved, the many views and many perceptions of what is in progress need to be heard. Quite possibly it "should have been" discussed before so many people from all over the world were faced with such a large change by one small company in need of meeting it's shareholder's expectations.I feel the discussion should include comments from all, not just the very few who are aware of this and acting upon what they may feel is the best option.

Author's name withheld

The High School kid
Why would Yahoo! buy Webring and be so unprofessional about it. These people have millions of dollars to hire the best people and they had plenty of time to prepare us for the transition. Instead they are managing this like some High School kid running a Hanson Site during his one hour computer class.
9/26/00 - WebRingNews

Ninety-nine dollar burgers
I think that what you are experiencing results from the mating of the jsnavbar thingy with a spider which then turns into a form of omnivore whose only mission is to eat the old system so that its new incarnation is very saleable to the next wave of McWeb surfers, with the "MY" this and "My" that state of mind!!! this system at Yahoo is not user friendly, like the old system was, but the new rack of "newbies" won't know the difference. My view is that Yahoo is in the midst of a "felony class A" theft of intellectual property, because they, in seeing $$$$, are denying the reality of the true *VALUE* of community, (and most of this community does not appear to be commercially minded, their concerns relate to the level of quality of participation within what is rightly a subset of their domain. There are also many sharing, caring, artistic, and intellectual arguments vis-a-vis the dreadfully weak, plain, dull, uniform jsnavbar thingy.)

And to boot even as this Frankenstein is raising its head to sqwauk for Yahoo's type of web?interface? it can't even do what they say it should. And just because "big business rules" and the courts only "hear the money" this would make a rather interesting case to take to the "old money" media crowd.

In other words if Y!McRings gets out of its cage you can bet that in
a couple of years there *will* be those willing to plunk down the ducats to let Y! do it "their way". *these* burgers however will be more like $99.00 instead of 99 cents.

Curt E. Angeledes - posted on RingSurf