On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > All I can contribute to this discussion is that yahoogroups, many of them, > still exist. I am a member of several getting posts from them each day.
I'm on several myself. The question is how long they will *continue* to exist. > However, I do not subscribe using either a yahoo or aol e-mail, and never > had one from Verizon. Affected folks were Verizon subscribers with verizon.net addresses. > those I know with yahoo e-mails began changing after the last major hack a > few weeks back. Yahoo had been hacked repeatedly. The price Verizon paid to acquire them dropped after due diligence revealed the full extent of the hacking. Reports about the most recent hack were revealed in December 2016, but were unclear about when the breaches actually took place, (It's the sort of thing that can remain unnoticed till rather after it actually takes place. The damage was likely already done.) > It is interesting that Verizon is getting out of the e-mail business, since > such communications are a part of their sell phones. That's not quite what's happening. As mentioned, Verizon owns AOL. Verizon itself just wants to provide connectivity, through their cellular and FIOS services. It doesn't want to provide content served by their connectivity. Effectively, they are transferring email provisioning to a wholly owned subsidiary who is in that business. Verizon sees no need to duplicate something AOL does, and is simply trying to hand it off to AOL. (My suspicion is that Gmail is more likely to be the email service Verizon users with switch to. Changing to a new provider is a regal pain, and Verizon users are not happy about being told they have to.) > While I can imagine they will want to dump yahoo e-mail, the hack was quite > extensive, I personally feel they may try to save yahoogroups, it is a > positive working generally well, at least for those not reading on yahoo. Possible. It's all about the money. What does it cost to provision and maintain Yahoo Groups? What will Verizon *make* from the service? Like any other big outfit, Verizon management has a fiduciary responsibility to invest corporate funds in things that provide the highest return. (And management can be sued by shareholders who think they *aren't* doing so.) I've seen corporate divisions folded because while the operation was profitable, it wasn't profitable *enough*. Verizon may keep Yahoo Groups active (but change the name as part of the re-branding.) I'm just not making any bets on it. > Just my take, > Kare ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
