Yahoo Groups Is Shutting Down

[calliopes_pen]

Yahoo Groups is shutting down, and all content will be deleted. Based on my Yahoo e-mail address, I signed up in 2003, just so that I could (briefly; I was more of a lurker that wanted the digests) participate in a Julia/Barnabas Dark Shadows group. I was a member of so many groups for a while there, but most died or were taken over by spam. I had left most of them already over the years due to that. Buffy, Dark Shadows, Trek, Highlander...

By October 21st, new content cannot be posted. If there’s anything you want to save from however long ago that had been uploaded, you have until December 14th. After that date, it seems that “the Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, however, all public groups will be made private or restricted. Admins will still be able to manage various group settings, though some functionality will be limited.”

Comments

[elistaire]

Yahoo Groups was essentially why I used yahoo email. Most of my groups are nothing much at the moment, but a few...*sigh* I suppose it is time to just get out of yahoo altogether.

[calliopes_pen]

I still prefer to use Yahoo for my e-mail, but if they ever nuke that I have a back-up Gmail account. All I would need to do is transfer a few e-mails I may wish to keep if I were given enough warning, and I'd be fine.