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   bobg to Questor   
   Re: umscribe scheduled -- Yahoo Groups   
   16 Oct 20 16:50:42   
   
   From: byobge@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 1:43:49 PM UTC-4, Questor wrote:   
   > Verizon has announced they are pulling the plug on Yahoo Groups as of   
   > December 15, 2020. On that date all service will be terminated, and twenty   
   > years of mailing lists will go pffft.   
   >   
      
   On the one hand, I hate to see any archive just disappear, especially one that   
   old - that's a big part of the freaking INTERNET ORIGIN STORY there, and if   
   it's not preserved in amber, how will future generations be able to re-create   
   the world?   
      
   On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember that dark day in 1986 when   
   "The Love Boat" was cancelled, and the nation screamed, "Wha? That was   
   still on? Like, seriously, in this, the SECOND Reagan administration, that was   
   still a show?"   
      
   So, huh.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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