From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 4:50:44 PM UTC-7, bobg wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   They already deleted the archives and additional features went to live email   
   only.   
      
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