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Re: ARCHIVES Digest - 31 Mar 2002 to 1 Apr 2002 (#2002-92)



On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:34:32 EST, Rick Barry <RICKBARRY@AOL.COM> wrote:

>In a message dated 4/2/02 12:01:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>LISTSERV@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU writes:

>So if any others were using yahoogroups as project websites with the
thought
>that the pages would continue to be maintained and that you could use them
>for group records of continuing value, be aware that your only options, as
I
>understand them, are to either laboriously copy and paste each message,
>survey, file, etc., into a word processor, or to send a message to the
group
>every couple of months, which of course could be very annoying to the other
>old members.


Well if you are the owner of the group you could always set the other
members to nomail or delete them.

I'm not surprised that Yahoo! would delete groups for inactivity, IIRC the
number of groups is well into the mid to high five figures right now. some
are very small and thus are taking up server space.


PeterK

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