17 Dec
2010
17 Dec
'10
8:02 a.m.
At 7:12 AM -0200 12/17/10, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
As some of you may know, Yahoo is flopping. And
much of the lists
of the world are on yahoo servers.
Oh, not a good thought... :-( My main lists these days (all
Photography related) are hosted on Yahoo servers. :-(
I still think these lists should run in private
servers. Everyone
though of Yahoo as a reliable company, that "would just never dies".
This is another nail on the coffin. Everything can happen - AND
HAPPENS - with a company like yahoo.
This is the way it used to be, there are reasons why almost all
lists, are now hosted on Yahoo (how many besides this one are hosted
elsewhere). I can think of one other list I'm still on that is
hosted by someone other than Yahoo, and it has been dead for about 2
months now (I forget how long it was dead the last time).
I've personally resisted the trend towards web-based BBS's, but there
are five of those I have accounts on, as they're the only way to
exchange data on those subjects. Personally I prefer email lists,
and consider them the most efficient means of exchanging information.
My hope is that if Yahoo finishes crumbling, they'll sell off their
mail lists to another company. This is how they got them in the
first place. Remember it used to be "One List". One of the Yahoo
lists I'm on started out on Fidonet!
You now have me wondering if I shouldn't look into a hardware upgrade
capable of running mail lists. I have the network capacity, just not
the hardware capacity. Honestly though I have no desire to provide
such a service.
Zane
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