>This is horrible. I would post a counter argument: this is inevitable. Anything stored on someone else's machine, especially for free, is subject to disappear

>This is horrible. I would post a counter argument: this is inevitable. Anything stored on someone else's machine, especially for free, is subject to disappear at any moment. Even if Yahoo wanted to keep Groups active, a hardware failure or natural disaster could undo all of this in the blink of an eye. At least this way Yahoo is giving people the opportunity to archive and move things. It should be the expectation that irreplaceable, valuable information should be archived somewhere that offers the hope of long term archival.