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On 10/17 I received an email from yahoo including the following message:
Starting December 14, all previously uploaded content stored on the
website will be removed and all existing public Groups will be made
private. If you would like to keep any of the content you’ve posted or
stored within your Yahoo Group, you have until December 14 to download
it by accessing this link.
So On 10/17 I clicked on the link. It said it would notify me when the
download was ready.
Three days later, and no notification. I clicked the link again, and it
says: We are currently processing your download request. Please check
back later. :(
Anybody else try to download the posts?
Daniel
On 10/16/2019 9:42 AM, Daniel Goldman [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
> Thanks very much for posting, since the deadline is coming soon.
>
> flame on :(
> I had long feared something like this happening, even worse that any day
> the site might crash and all the old content disappear, with no warning.
> The basic problem is that yahoo is and has long been a cr** company. For
> some reason, most yahoo software has always been (IMO) poorly designed
> and glitchy. For example, yahoo email has always had many problems, I
> know from personal experience. My best guess is this is related to "the
> dumbing down of the American programmer", with "let's try clicking on
> this" or "maybe this will work" style. Just the opposite of sed, which
> is oriented to the programmer who is in control of the software and
> knows what he/she is doing. Marisa Meyer taking over made things even
> worse, but maybe it was too late anyway. Then there was the huge user
> data breach, incredibly incompetent on the part of yahoo. Finally, yahoo
> was sold off and is apparently continuing to deteriorate. It is pitiful
> yahoo has to cut way back a working groups system. Even the announcement
> concerning the change is a bit vague. For example, the term "upload
> content" is poorly defined. They should spell out *exactly* what is
> going on.
> flame off :)
>
> Despite the vagueness, it seems clear that all old posts will go away
> (Dec 14) and that posting to online interface will go away (Oct 21). It
> also seems there will still be an online interface, where someone might
> ask to join, but no posting to an online form.
>
> Maybe this is an opportunity. The yahoo groups software has never been
> that good anyway. I have previously mentioned this. 1) It displays line
> breaks differently (looks bad) depending on whether an email post or
> post directly to site. 2) More seriously, it has been documented to get
> confused about certain "odd" character sequences used in sed but not
> normally used in English words. :( This is extremely bad. I don't
> remember the exact details, but I remember 100% this has happened. I
> think this perhaps even happened in one of the previous two threads.
>
> ********* Sven, or whoever is current admin, do you have a way to
> automatically download all the archived content? I think it is very
> useful to save, one way or another we *must* save it, because there are
> many good examples and insights in the content.
>
> ********* Sven, or whoever is current admin, is there another platform
> we might migrate to? Or stick with email-only group? Or other preferred
> course of action? Any other thoughts or reflections?
>
> If there is no response or good answer to the above two questions, I
> will see what I can do. But it would be better for the admin to look
> first, because they *might* have an easier way to download the content,
> and probably know more about all this than I do.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 10/16/2019 7:44 AM, Tim Chase [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
>> It's a little less dire than I initially thought since the email
>> portion may still linger:
>>
>>>> Will I be able to use Yahoo Groups going forward?
>>>
>>> You'll still be able to communicate with your groups via email and
>>> search for private groups on the site. In addition, admins will
>>> continue to have limited access to group settings and administration
>>> tools.
>>
>> but it sounds like this mailing-list is on life-support at this point.
>>
>> -tim
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2019-10-16 09:39, Tim Chase wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Just saw this today
>>>
>>> https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
>>>
>>> and it sounds like this mailing list will be going kaput and quite
>>> soon at that. Are there plans to migrate it (and possibly
>>> historical messages) elsewhere?
>>>
>>> -tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Posted by: Tim Chase <[email protected]>
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>>
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