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Fish,
Have you looked at https://twitter.com/tronguy. There was a "tweet" from
Jay last week.
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 10:59:28 -0800
"'\'Fish\' \(David B. Trout\)' [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> chris wrote:
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> > just testing what has happened to the message area
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> > chris
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> > <cjar1950-/[email protected]>
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> As Peppe (Giuseppe Vitillaro) has already explained, there is no longer any web interface to Yahoo Groups. You can no longer access the Hercules-390 Yahoo group (Hercules-390 emulator support forum) via Yahoo.
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> HOWEVER... THE GROUP *DOES* STILL EXIST!
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> You can only access the group via email. Posting messages to the group is still possible, but it must be done via email (by sending an email to "[email protected]"). All existing members of the group will still receive such emails (just as I and Peppe received yours!) and other members can still reply to such emails, so in that sense the group *DOES* as I said STILL EXIST.
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> The only thing that DOESN'T exist is a web interface to the group and all of our user uploaded files that users uploaded to the group's "Files" area (to be shared with others). All of THAT content is now gone forever from Yahoo.
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> TECHNICALLY the web interface still exists (even though I just said it doesn't), but it is only accessible to those members which have been specifically invited to join the new private group. (All of Yahoo's existing groups have now become PRIVATE groups and are no longer publicly accessible like before.)
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> The only problem is, as I explained, you must be a member of the new private group, and the only way to become a member is if the admin/owner of the group specifically invites you to become a member, which in the case of the hercules-390 group presents a problem: the current (only?) admin of the group -- Jay Maynard -- is AWOL: has wandered away with no apparent interest in returning and refuses(?) to respond to all attempts to contact him.
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> We've tried and tried and tried to contact him and get him to assign admin (ownership) to someone else (e.g. any one of the existing/active Hercules developers), but as I said he never replies. He is either completely disinterested or has died, thus leaving NO ONE in control of the group and NO WAY for existing group members to be invited to the new private group (thereby allowing access to the group via Yahoo's web interface).
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> SO... As I explained, the only way to communicate to other EXISTING group members is via email. That, according to Yahoo, will continue to work.
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> For how long it will continue to work is anyone's guess. :(
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> "Fish" (David B. Trout)
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