They’ll still be acting as a mailing list service, so communication should still work… but no content can be uploaded to the Groups site, and there’ll be no archive of messages.
But given that all public groups will be made private (new subscriptions will require approval from the group admins), and they don’t mention anything about being able to create new groups, it doesn’t sound like they want to be running mailing lists at all.
I’ve been running a Yahoo Groups list for 13 years and if it wasn’t for Twitter, and now here, I’d have had no idea they were going to do this - no communication at all.
Phil
On 17 Oct 2019, at 17:11, Thomas Vander Wal social@vanderwal.net wrote:
Around Maryland and Washington, DC Yahoo Groups are the default civic and school system communication channels. This short notice (new content stops October 21 according to different Y! groups I follow). This should be entertaining (not so much).
All the best, Thomas
On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:17, Kent Brewster kentbrew@gmail.com wrote:
Heads up, folks:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html
TLDR: Y! is deleting hosted content for Groups on 14 December; if you or someone you love depends on the service, you'd best get downloading.
If you have time or bandwidth, Archive Team could use your help:
--Kent
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