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This is pretty standard. Google Groups bans me whenever I open too many tabs at once. It's annoying, but these big corps don't have any inclination to support u
by lnanek2 7y ago
This is pretty standard. Google Groups bans me whenever I open too many tabs at once. It's annoying, but these big corps don't have any inclination to support user behavior other than standard, especially when closing down a product. I think the blocking bit is sensationalizing it a bit more than is the reality. The site policies and design intentionally prevent joining a group just to download everything, it's not an intentional blocking of a group or action beyond the default behavior of enforcing the TOS.
- Diagon 7y agoWell, it was actually intentional. While a lot of us were backing up our groups as individuals (whether as owners or just members), and having no trouble there, the Archive Team was taking requests. So there was volume involved, and they have been in touch with Yahoo who refused to be supportive of the archive effort. So their target really was these guys specifically. Not just the ToS, but these guys in the context of an archive effort at a point of "ToS" (Termination of Service).