Diagon

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by Diagon 7y ago
Verizon's response, and the response to the response, are in the article of the OP. They claim they offer a Group Downloads Manager, but it's very broken.
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by Diagon 7y ago
But the data will be going to Archive.org, correct?
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by Diagon 7y ago
Yes. The archiving was starting to take a lot of bandwidth. Some care had to be taken not to bog down Yahoo's servers.
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by Diagon 7y ago
They do it regularly. Lead in gasoline (ethyl corp), asbestos.
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by Diagon 7y ago
See below. My main concern is early medical/biohacking groups that shared data, like medical tests, and engaged in extensive discussion/community driven research. Such groups go back to at least the late 1990's. A main conc
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by Diagon 7y ago
Individuals have always been able to delete their own posts. If you log in there, you can still do it (before the 14th). Also, see betamaxthetape, above. If anything is archived, they will respond to takedown requests.
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by Diagon 7y ago
Is this something you know from the inside, or your (probably good) guess?
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by Diagon 7y ago
It's not stupid. There were serious groups using that platform. While I never thought it was a good idea, they nevertheless did. My personal concern is community driven medical/biohacking research groups that go back to at leas
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by Diagon 7y ago
They hadn't backed up yet. They had set up accounts with yahoo that they were then planning to use to back up those groups. Backups themselves were starting, but they had to go slowly enough not to bog down yahoo's servers.
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by Diagon 7y ago
While the above post is concerned with Fandom groups, my concern is with groups that started doing early community driven biohacking type research. There are medical tests results and discussions of medical interventions. While that'
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by Diagon 7y ago
There's way too much data. Many group owners did not know of the shutdown (Yahoo was negligent regarding informing owners), and even if they did many group owners have little or no technical capability. That's why so many reques
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by Diagon 7y ago
Many groups are public. Many have owners that requested the group be archived.
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by Diagon 7y ago
While I agree with your first point, and tried to get groups I was associated with to move for years, nevertheless there are groups there that engaged in community driven research and have important data uploaded there. (This is my main co
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by Diagon 7y ago
Extensive history is about to be lost. Despite being broken, many organizations still use it. Examples from that post: A police cooperative in Washington DC that was using them as a network to communicate with their respective neighborhoo
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Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14(modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com)
1393 points by Diagon 7y ago|405 comments