--On Friday, October 19, 2001 3:14 PM -0400 danah boyd <danah@media.mit.edu> wrote:
It should be pointed out that the majority of yahoogroups are considered "private" groups which are not in the directory that is accessible to all. Moderators have the option of choosing whether or not their group is searchable or listed in the directory.
While it may be that Yahoo Groups includes many "private" lists, it includes many thousands of public lists as well. For example, the sub-section "Cyberculture" offers information about 1661 publicly accessible lists. And that's just one of 19 sub-sections of "Computers & Internet." Joan Joan Korenman, Director Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 USA korenman@umbc.edu http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/