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Yahoo Groups demise discussed on TidBits talk

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jimrobertson All Messages By This Member #228 开云体育 I just discovered a lively discussion on TidBits talk that clarifies (at least for me) what’s actually happening to Yahoo Groups. Apparently, they’re not really going away. What IS going away is the ability for users to access them on the Web. I’d wager that most of us access MacSupportCentral via email, and that most of us have abided by the rule that we don’t include attachments to our email posts. If that were all there was to a group (a method for collecting and sharing email messages), the group could continue. Some posters in the TidBits discussion suggest two motives for Yahoo’s move to corral all the group discussions into emali: To make it easier for Yahoo or its corporate parent to harvest the traded email messages for targeted advertising purposes (apparently it’s harder to do that with content posted directly to the web interface). To make it possible for Yahoo’s parent, a company called “Oath,” that I’d never heard of before, to get its Apps available on Samsung smartphones (I have NO idea whether that’s the case having made fewer than a dozen or so forefinger stabs on Android devices in my entire life). <> Jim Robertson

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