Someone keeps telling us all that Yahoo Groups is no more. That is a blatant lie!! Stop spreading rumours you cannot substantiate!
What is ending are the articles and photos on the home page... which you have never looked at anyway! But this list will still continue as it has. There will not be any changes.
There is nothing to fear; it will continue as it has. When you don't know what you are talking about, please stop saying anything at all! And always start you message with "This is all a lie....."
On Thursday, October 24, 2019, Mark sirnylon@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:Please calm down, Tallguy.I only reported what I knew, and updated it as I learned more.There is no need to get your knickers in a knot.Someone keeps telling us all that Yahoo Groups is no more. That is a blatant lie!! Stop spreading rumours you cannot substantiate!
What is ending are the articles and photos on the home page... which you have never looked at anyway! But this list will still continue as it has. There will not be any changes.
There is nothing to fear; it will continue as it has. When you don't know what you are talking about, please stop saying anything at all! And always start you message with "This is all a lie....."
Charming
Someone keeps telling us all that Yahoo Groups is no more. That is a blatant lie!! Stop spreading rumours you cannot substantiate!
What is ending are the articles and photos on the home page... which you have never looked at anyway! But this list will still continue as it has. There will not be any changes.
There is nothing to fear; it will continue as it has. When you don't know what you are talking about, please stop saying anything at all! And always start you message with "This is all a lie....."
Thanks, Mark, for the update. That’s good news, but does anyone know whether new members can still join this group after December then or this feature will be disabled? I guess this is a pretty neat feature for emailing lists to have!
BTW, the last few messages I sent took an awfully long time to get through to the list. Anyone else experiencing this? Is it anything to do with this Yahoo Groups changes?
Amro
Yahoo says:
Attention:
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.
Sending/Receiving email functionality is not going away, you can continue to communicate via any email client with your group members.
Which includes this info:
What features will go away?
Files
Polls
Links
Photos
Folders
Calendar
Database
Attachments
Conversations
Email Updates
Message Digest
Message History
(None of us seem to use these features much anyway.)
What will happen to the site?
The Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Any new group members will need to request an invite or be invited by an admin. Admins will still be able to manage various group settings, though some functionality will be limited.
So, do we continue with business as normal, start a forum on Dean's site or elsewhere, storm parliament?
Yahoo says:
Attention:
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.
Sending/Receiving email functionality is not going away, you can continue to communicate via any email client with your group members.
Which includes this info:
What features will go away?
Files
Polls
Links
Photos
Folders
Calendar
Database
Attachments
Conversations
Email Updates
Message Digest
Message History
(None of us seem to use these features much anyway.)
What will happen to the site?
The Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Any new group members will need to request an invite or be invited by an admin. Admins will still be able to manage various group settings, though some functionality will be limited.
So, do we continue with business as normal, start a forum on Dean's site or elsewhere, storm parliament?
--James R Curry
Yes. But, I was a little confused, in one place Yahoo says “Sending/Receiving email functionality is not going away, you can continue to communicate via any email client with your group members”, and then under “What features will go away”, Yahoo lists “Email Updates” and “Message Digest”. I thought those were the two features which distribute emails to list members? Right?
Testing, testing... is this thing on?
I gave this update yesterday but people largely didn't seem to notice.
Yahoo says:
Attention:
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.
Sending/Receiving email functionality is not going away, you can continue to communicate via any email client with your group members.
Which includes this info:
What features will go away?
Files
Polls
Links
Photos
Folders
Calendar
Database
Attachments
Conversations
Email Updates
Message Digest
Message History
(None of us seem to use these features much anyway.)
What will happen to the site?
The Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Any new group members will need to request an invite or be invited by an admin. Admins will still be able to manage various group settings, though some functionality will be limited.
So, do we continue with business as normal, start a forum on Dean's site or elsewhere, storm parliament?
--James R Curry
Yes. But, I was a little confused, in one place Yahoo says “Sending/Receiving email functionality is not going away, you can continue to communicate via any email client with your group members”, and then under “What features will go away”, Yahoo lists “Email Updates” and “Message Digest”. I thought those were the two features which distribute emails to list members? Right?
On 24/10/2019 03:55 pm, James R Curry scratchy@... [just-a-minute] wrote:Testing, testing... is this thing on?
I gave this update yesterday but people largely didn't seem to notice.
Yahoo says:
Attention:
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.
Sending/Receiving email functionality is not going away, you can continue to communicate via any email client with your group members.
Which includes this info:
What features will go away?
Files
Polls
Links
Photos
Folders
Calendar
Database
Attachments
Conversations
Email Updates
Message Digest
Message History
(None of us seem to use these features much anyway.)
What will happen to the site?
The Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Any new group members will need to request an invite or be invited by an admin. Admins will still be able to manage various group settings, though some functionality will be limited.
So, do we continue with business as normal, start a forum on Dean's site or elsewhere, storm parliament?
--James R Curry--The Upload Jar - so you can send me stuff to put into any Jar.
I'm back from holiday and decided to write a script to pull all 11,545 messages that have been posted to this group, to date, into a database. This means we'll still be able to refer back to them when the message history disappears from Yahoo over the next week or so.
It wasn't an easy process as the Yahoo Groups server is painfully slow at the moment (presumably because thousands of other groups are being backed up one way or another by members who don't want them to suddenly vanish either!)
I realize we should still be able to email each other indefinitely but I've always preferred posting my replies using the online forms. I also find it much easier to follow a topic when I can flick back and forth through previous comments rather than searching through a cluttered inbox.
My original idea was to import the group posts into a proper bulletin board but after toying with this for the last few days I've come to accept that it isn't really feasible when you have thousands of posts all formatted differently - some plain text, most in HTML - and lots of them repeating the previous messages beneath them!
In the end I put up a simple page that emulates the way Yahoo currently displays them, so that you can read through them one at a time, if you so desire, but adding in a powerful search function so that you can easily find any message about any topic that has been posted to the group over the last 12 years.
There are a dozen or so "missing" messages - presumably these were spam posts that Dean deleted? Anyway, for those of you interested in viewing the message archive, either now or sometime in the future, you'll find it here: https://tvrdb.com/jam/group/
All the best!
Simon--The new SUPER JAM JAR - radio, onlineThe new UPLOAD JAR - so you can send me stuff.The old Jars are still available for the time being...