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Date Posted: 23:56:28 04/28/07 Sat
Author: Dave Alpern (Astounding!!)
Subject: Yahoo's Removal of JtB Site

Below is e-mail correspondence between Yahoo Geocities and myself, regarding the former's sudden and arbitrary removal of JtB's site earlier in April. The responses to my appeal for reinstatement of the site are evasive, non-responsive and even abusive. They reply as if they were requested to remove the site, when the exact opposite is true. Hope JtB won't have to search much longer for a new Web host.

Shalom,
Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Yahoo! Geocities
To: Dave Alpern
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:41 PM
Subject: New Complaint No. KMM48120158V94070L0KM (KMM48453679V28013L0KM)

Dear Dave,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Geocities.

Thank you for informing us of possible abuse on Yahoo! GeoCities. We have investigated the site and taken the necessary action. Please continue to notify us of any content you believe violates the GeoCities Terms of Service, located at: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

John Best
Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/
33303075

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Alpern
To: Yahoo! Geocities
Cc: Join the Boycott (Inbox) ; teachntrain@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: New Complaint No. KMM48120158V94070L0KM (KMM48221547V59722L0KM)

Dear Stan,

To say the least, I am astounded by your e-mail below. I would have thought the complaint no. listed provides all the necessary details. Instead, you provide yet another long number and request details. "Astounded" is a gross understatement!

The location in question is http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm. Scroll down once again for the "detailed complaint," as well as the relevant complaint number. The "Join the Boycott" link is http://tinyurl.com/9dr8d. To the best of my admittedly feeble comprehension, these are the required details.

Once again, I ask Yahoo! Geocities to reinstate the "Join the Boycott" site mentioned above with no further delay.

Thank you,
Dave Alpern
Petach Tikvah, ISRAEL
mailto:daveyboy@bezeqint.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Yahoo! Geocities
To: Dave Alpern
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:11 PM
Subject: Complaint No. KMM48120158V94070L0KM (KMM48221547V59722L0KM)

Hello Dave,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Geocities.

We appreciate your reporting this instance of abuse. Please write back with a more detailed description of the issue in question and include as much of the following information as you can:

1. The exact location of the Yahoo! GeoCities home page and any specific file names or HTML pages. (ex: http://geocities.yahoo.com/name_of_site)

2. A detailed description of the complaint or issue.

3. Any other information that may help us investigate and take the appropriate action.

Additionally, you may want to review the Yahoo! GeoCities Terms of Service at:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Stan

Yahoo! Customer Care
http://www.yahoo.com/
33303075


Original Message Follows:
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To Yahoo Geocities,

"Join the Boycott" is an outstanding group of people dedicated to defending Israel from consistently biased and distorted attacks against it. At the very least, these fine people deserve to know why you took JtB offline.

Please put "Join the Boycott" back online immediately. Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,
Dave Alpern
Petach Tikvah, ISRAEL
mailto:daveyboy@bezeqint.net

----- Original Message -----
From: df
To: teachntrain@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:23 AM
Subject: Yahoo's Denial of Join the Boycott's Freedom of Speech

Join the Boycott wrote:

Friends of Join the Boycott:

Over the years, Join the Boycott has fought some fierce internet wars to get out the message of support for Israel. We have faced many outrages together and fought and won many battles where others feared to tread.

But last Monday or Tuesday during Passover (4/9 or 4/10), we were hit with an outrage that is big even by our own standards. On one of those days, Yahoo Geocities took Join the Boycott offline (after 5 years!) and is so far refusing to restore our website. See the message at http://tinyurl.com/9dr8d

Yahoo Geocities has done this - without notice, without explanation, and without recourse. We are outraged beyond words.

This is a denial of Join the Boycott's Freedom of Speech. We can only assume something untoward has taken place in light of the controversy surrounding our recent actions. What exactly, we do not know. In the interim we can only communicate by email, and we are asking all our friends to please do the following:

Please Write to Yahoo Geocities at geo-guidelines@cc.yahoo-inc.com and use the complaint number (KMM48120158V94070L0KM) and demand that Join the Boycott be put back online immediately. It can be as simple as filling out the subject line of an email with just this message PLEASE PUT JOIN THE BOYCOTT BACK ONLINE NOW (KMM48120158V94070L0KM) and optionally, in addition, our link in the message area http://tinyurl.com/9dr8d Anything extra in the message area is optional.

If we can get enough people to do that we may be able to influence them to put us back online. Thank you all for your wonderful help and support over these past 5 years.

Best wishes.
David Frankenthal
for Join the Boycott
http://tinyurl.com/9dr8d

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