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Yahoo Groups demise discussed on TidBits talk #MacSupportCentral

 

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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:

  1. 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).
  2. 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).

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Jim Robertson

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