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Message: 7237

Author: Oliver Schick

Date: 24/10/2019

Subject: Re: Farewell

 

According to the Yahoo! announcement on top of the page, “starting
December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host user created content
on its sites. New content can no longer be uploaded after October 28,
2019.”

This means that this Group will end its active life next Monday, and
will then disappear from the web on 14th December, 2019, just six days
shy of its twentieth birthday. What a shame!

Fortunately, the reality isn't quite so stark. Yahoogroups will lose most of its web interface, but it will still be possible to send e-mails to groups. This is worth reading:

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010..html

As someone said on another mailing list I'm on: 'Basically, it's going back to the vanilla mailing list service that
Yahoo bought from eGroups.com in 2002. Plus ça change!'

Finally, if anyone manages to archive the content of this Group
successfully, please let me know < https://jswcentral.org/contact.html >.
According to Yahoo!, “as of December 14 all previously posted content
on the site will be permanently removed”. I would be happy to help put
it back online somewhere else if that was possible.

Most people seem to be migrating to groups.io, which offers a facility to transfer the archives. I haven't tried it, but many others already have.

https://groups.io/creategroup

I know I'd join a new JSW/MM group there.

All is not lost! :-)

Best wishes,
Oliver.

 

 

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