Re: Yahoogroups is closing down

Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 08:37, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > not sure if you have noticed this (or even still uses it), but Yahoo
> > announced, that the Yahoogroups will be shutdown on Dec 15th, 2020.
> >
> > https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html
> >
> > If I understand the implications correctly, this means the mailinglist
> > archive before the move to Google Groups will be lost.
>
> I don't know what can be done fo the past, but, for the future, this
> is a reminder that Google can do the same in the future with Google
> Groups. Maybe moving all discussions to the good old Usenet?

Google groups just got a refresh, it's very unlikely it will go away.
And if it does, Google has a good reputation of allowing for exporting
all information before shutting down.

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