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OT: Future of Yahoo Groups

2001-04-12 by Scott Evans, Gen Mgr

Hello to all,

This message is being cross-posted to the four Yahoo groups with which I
spend the most time.

I heard on the radio yesterday that Yahoo is in the beginning stages of
financial difficulty and that there are layoffs planned. My intention is
to begin discussion on the possible alternatives to Yahoo groups to
avoid any possible interruption to our interests and also to explore the
possibilities of archiving the valuable discussions that current rest on
Yahoo servers. If the company does have problems, it would be a shame
for all of this knowledge to suddenly become inaccessible.

I wish that I could lend some information to this discussion, but I am
far from an expert in these matters.

Scott

RE: [motm] OT: Future of Yahoo Groups

2001-04-12 by Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)

I have a copy of every message I've recieved from this NG since I joined,
which was on... 4/19/2000, about 62 megs worth.  I won't put it up for
general download, but if anyone wants to make a database out of it, I'd be
happy to make arrangements to get a copy to them.

I'm not convinved that YahooGroups will go away any time soon, however.

--PBr, the archiver...

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:00 PM
To: 'motm@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: FW: [motm] OT: Future of Yahoo Groups

Is there any way, I wonder, to get the database files for the past two years
so that someone else has half a chance of hosting the archives in case the
worst happens...?

-----Original Message-----
From: 	Scott Evans, Gen Mgr [mailto:esresource@...] 
Sent:	Thursday, 12 April, 2001 2:56 PM
To:	EFM_Synth@yahoogroups.com; motm@yahoogroups.com;
oakley-synths@yahoogroups.com; SergeModular@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	[motm] OT: Future of Yahoo Groups

Hello to all,

This message is being cross-posted to the four Yahoo groups with which I
spend the most time.
I heard on the radio yesterday that Yahoo is in the beginning stages of
financial difficulty and that there are layoffs planned. My intention is to
begin discussion on the possible alternatives to Yahoo groups to avoid any
possible interruption to our interests and also to explore the possibilities
of archiving the valuable discussions that current rest on Yahoo servers. If
the company does have problems, it would be a shame for all of this
knowledge to suddenly become inaccessible.
I wish that I could lend some information to this discussion, but I am far
from an expert in these matters.
Scott

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