On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-25 22:29 (UTC-0400): > >> Verizon may keep Yahoo Groups active (but change the name as part of >> the re-branding.) > > I hope it continues. A lot of useful help groups and archives will disappear > if > it does not.
I hope it does too. I'm just not betting on it. > Before it became yahoogroups in 2001 it was eGroups, which IIRC was the > originator, not a rebrander. Before eGroups, mailing lists were primarily > created and maintained by various interests serving the specific groups that > needed them, using MajorDomo or software like it; before web forums existed, > when Usenet was still useful to and known by the majority of the minority of > people using the internet at all. I recall eGroups. Topica was another list provider. (I created and manage a Google Groups based list intended to replace a formet Topica forum when that entity closed the service.) ______ 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
