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Subject:Re: Yahoo groups closing?
From:Ben T
Date:Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:12:29 -0700

YG has been acting strange for awhile. I’ve got a few groups which I moderate there. One is still quite active. However, none have received any of the closure notices. I’ve read the news reports on the web. It seems to be a major problem only to public groups which have a lot of files and photos. 

BenT

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 10:12 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Yahoo groups closing?
> To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com>
> Cc: vanagonlist a <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
> 
> 
> Most of the groups are moving to groups.io.  They make it pretty easy.
> 
> I don't think them closing is a bad thing at this point as they've been
> broken and weird for quite a while now.  I haven't been able to post in any
> of my groups for a couple years now.
> 
> Yrs,
> d
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 7:02 AM Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah. Sucks big time.
>> 
>> Lists that I own:
>> WetWesties has 20 years of posts.
>> Diesel-Vanagon list, 16 years.
>> Spare Vanagon list has 21 years of posts.
>> Riviera-Registry, 15 years and a boat load of pics.
>> 
>> Verizon claims that I can get the data. The question becomes, “What do I
>> do with the data once I have it?” I’ve requested the archive. I guess I’ll
>> know better when I see what I get.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 16, 2019, at 12:40 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just got a notice about this on the Yahoo Subaruvanagon list. Is this
>> affecting all groups?  Damn.
>>> 
>>> Stephen
>>> 
>>> Mobile
>>