How man of you remember the messy groups at Yahoo? Do any of you frequent these any longer? I've still got them in my favorite group listing and go to them now and again to see if anything new has been added. All I see if spam of all kinds. I used to be the moderator of Messy Men 1 & 2, then someone did a 3 and not long after that, the groups were either deleted or in my case I was locked out and couldn't manage it any longer. It filled up with all sorts of spam and soon was deleted.
There were about a dozen Yahoo groups that I used to frequent, rarely to any effect, but as postings became infrequent and the spam levels intolerable, I stopped visiting. It's a good few years since I've even thought of them.
Before discovering UMD and some of the other gungesites, I belonged to a host of messy Yahoo! Groups (including all four - or was it five? - IATUS groups). Some spectacular photos in the past, especially on the older sites, but after non-Yahoo! sites began to proliferate, I pretty much stop visiting the groups. Just in the past weeks I checked them out again, but so many are unmoderated that they're filled with spam, especially the kind unrelated to our little world. But they were fun while they lasted!
Aside from my WAM fetish I've also got a thing about guys with nice / long hair. There's still a group going on Yahoo who are called Gay Mens Hair Fetish and we all love using it still. Works perfectly as long as you're robust in dealing with spamming issues
Like most other members of this group, I used to visit the yahoo groups on a regular basis and also managed my own site as mudloveruk; but the spammers took over and when I closed the site because of the spam, a spammer took over the name. We had some great interchanges and a lot of fun. I haven't visited in years, since yahoo re-organised the groups.