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1. Strypey (strypey)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2019 18:19:07 UTC Strypey

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   Yet another reason not to trust corporate #datafarms to host your communications. #Yahoo are deleting the archives of all #YahooGroups and shutting down the web interface. If you have (or had) a group there you want archived for posterity, the #ArchiveTeam are onto it as usual:
   https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups

   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.
   • Strypey (strypey)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2019 18:33:57 UTC Strypey

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     Also this message now appears on the pages of every YahooGroup, eg:
     https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/diyweb/info

     > "Starting December 14, 2019 Yahoo Groups will no longer host user created content on its sites."

     Some of us have been saying for a long time that forcing platform providers to take legal responsibility for user-generated content some people find objectionable - as if they were publishers not neutral hosts - would have a chilling effect. This may be the first signs of that effect kicking in.

     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.