Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups

Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by ygthrowaway on Sunday December 08, 2019 @05:30PM (#21738875)

Probably not very helpful/informational but:

I work for VzM, but not historically directly on Yahoo products (product teams have been merged/consolidated etc. over the past few years, but there's still strong tendencies toward products people came from).

So I wouldn't be very clued into what's happening with Yahoo Groups internally. And I've heard nothing about this internally. At all.

As it stands, it's 2:30pm in SV, VzM is top of the HN frontpage, and not a single soul has mentioned it yet on internal Slack.

Will see if I can find out more.

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by rkagerer on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:21PM (#21739942)

Maybe you could be the one to raise it on the Slack channel and (even better) get some eyeballs with authority clued in on the matter.

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by ygthrowaway on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:40AM (#21741411)

It was someone quite high up in the company who was the first to raise in Slack actually; though it's clear were similarly not highly clued in to this before yesterday, and no substantive replies or info yet (just other colleagues with similar concerns).

I'm guessing this will blow up later this morning when people start waking for the work week.

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by Diagon on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:54AM (#21741473)

Thanks. We also noticed that BoingBoing picked it up. Their graphics are a bit crude - but that's BoingBoing. We're trying to be more polite here: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/08/oath-makes-you-swear-2.htm...

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by jacquesm on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:23AM (#21743363)

Crude but quite applicable.

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by jrwr on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:21AM (#21743340)

If VzM wants to contact someone at the archive team securely they can DM any of the @s on irc.efnet.org/#archiveteam or twitter DM myself (@JRWR) or Jason Scott (@textfiles)

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by notduncansmith on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:39PM (#21739998)

Seems risky at this point, since they’ve already posted here. Probably better to wait quietly and report.

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by ISL on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:23AM (#21741143)

Why would it be risky? Surfacing an issue that is important to the public, where future/planned actions by the company could become a PR debacle sounds important.

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by notduncansmith on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @02:27PM (#21755939)

We're commenting on an article that describes Verizon giving 0 fucks about what is "important to the public".

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by spsful on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:52PM (#21739339)

I hope this doesn't sound naive, but what does the M in VzM stand for?

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by Macha on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:55PM (#21739359)

Media. Verizon Media is the specific division of Verizon that contains Yahoo, AOL, and VDMS (formerly edgecast)

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by advaita on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:55PM (#21739354)

Not OP but I assume it means verizon media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by davidferguson on Monday December 09, 2019 @05:11AM (#21741530)

Don't suppose you can find a way to unban our accounts...? ;)

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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by Diagon on Sunday December 08, 2019 @05:56PM (#21739026)

That could really help. Thank you!

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