After more than a week of the list being down over the 4th of July, and then the institution of a replacement list on Yahoo, Google saw fit in its infinite wisdom to reinstate the East Nashville list.
So I’ve deleted the Yahoo group, and we’re back in business at the old location:
http://groups.google.com/group/East-Nashville
What I learned:
- Google is not a benevolent dictator. It’s a bit of an oblivious bully. That sounds contradictory, but over the 10 days or so I was dealing with this mess, I saw both clueless and churlish behavior on the part of Google’s representatives. Neither impressed me.
- Apparently there’s a decent chunk of the web-going population out there who believes that Google retaliates against its critics, as well. So if I suddenly stop appearing in Google search results, I guess we’ll all know why. I’m not quite that much of a conspiracy theorist, myself.
- More people than I could hope to personally thank helped spread the word about the list situation. My gratitude to you all!
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