[sdiy] OT: Geocities closing (Hoax?)

[Scott Evans, Gen Mgr]

To all,

I am reluctantly forwarding this message to the group. It is my hope
that it is a hoax, but I have a bad feeling about this. I checked with
seven or eight "Hoax" sites and this was not listed as a hoax on any one
of them. If it turns out to be a one, please forgive my post, but in the
interest of the DIY community, I know that there are several DIY web
sites present on the Geocities servers.

My reason for posting is just to suggest a cautionary approach that
anyone with a web presence on these servers should mirror the site or
otherwise make a backup somewhere so that if this does turn out to be
the truth, the damage may be minimized. Where people's labor and time
creating these web sites is concerned, I believe that it would be
prudent and reasonable to be careful. (e.g. Midiwall).

Again, please accept my apologies in advance if this turns out to be
false alarm, but I am aware that Yahoo is in financial trouble and a
move of this sort would not surprise me.

Scott

Fwd: Geocities Closing

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> > As you all know, my hubby is a Community Leader for
> > Geocities. He just got this in his email today.
> > Geocities WILL BE CLOSING! All the websites will be
> > DELETED and CLOSED! They will be NO WARNING as usual,
> > that's just the way Yahoo works.
> > So, if any of you want to keep your website, you will
> > have to back it up and save it, and move it to a new
> > web hosting place.
> > This is not a internet hoax, my husband got this from
> > his boss, it could happen in a week, it could happen
> > in about a month.
> > My hubby said to tell as many people as I can, so that
> > you will not lose your site, and so you can be ready
> > to move it to another place. :o(
> >
> > Linda
> >
> > Below is part of the memo he received:
> >
> > "Yahoo executives declined to specify which areas of
> > its service will be affected by the cutbacks. In
> > general, however, the company said the only areas
> > spared would be those that directly produced revenue
> > advertising, services to businesses and its new
> > fee-based services for consumers."
> >
> > "Big areas of its site like the Geocities service,
> > which lets users build personal home pages are NOT
> > part of this new, narrower focus, even though they
> > contain some advertising. They will be closed."
> >