Recently we attempted to set up a group for health informatics midwives. However, hardly anyone responded to the invitations to join it. Several people reported to us subsequently that Yahoo! is blocked within their trust; people can neither access the Yahoo! group home page (it is blocked by a firewall, content filter or hosts file) nor subscribe to the list (messages are blocked by a spam filter). The HOMs list, however, operates quite successfully. I am hoping that members of the list can advise me in more detail what the policy / practice is within their own trust regarding Yahoo! groups, and of possible ways round the problem of which they are aware. (For instance, will IT staff 'whitelist' messages from a bona fide Yahoo! group in a spam filter, or configure a firewall etc. to allow access to its home page, if asked to do so by someone sufficiently senior? Is Yahoo! banned, but Mailbase allowed? Should we run Listserv or something similar on our own web server instead?)

Thanks in advance

Catherine

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Catherine Ebenezer
Information Systems Manager
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