I wonder if Yahoo had a “server shutdown” for some
reason, perhaps to service its email server or flush out a virus, something no
business would want to advertise. I noticed that there were absolutely NO GROUP
emails arriving for about 2 days this past weekend – from ANY of the dozen or so
“Yahoo Astro” manufacturer groups I subscribe to. A weekend seems like a good
time for a general service shutdown, perhaps it is an annual clean-up.
This was unusual, since the AP and SBIG groups are
always so prolific. Dead silence for 2 days was certainly disconcerting, almost
like a nuclear winter without a dose of communications. Now the traffic is back
to its usual pace, and we now have our astro fix (pun intended).
Contrary to some opinion, I like Yahoo handling “Group
emails”. Other major, unique vendor-installed, user support forums
are either restrictive, or just plain clunky. Hope AP doesn’t go that way. I
suspect using something other than Yahoo for Groups will be costly - (aren’t
Yahoo Groups free ?) - or involve the manufacturer in continual
maintenance of the group message forum, not to mention the server’s
bug and virus chasing, wasting vendor’s time and resources.
Perhaps lets not be too quick to kill the turkey
that laid the original golden egg.
