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Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by john_moscow on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:47PM (#21740031)
Pure speculation, but if you publish something created by another person without an explicit permission by them, it may open you up for a lawsuit. If some groups required explicit approval by a moderator in order to read the posts, I would take it as they didn't want the content to go public.

So technically, some legal troll could post some copyrighted information, wait for it to be published on Archive, and then sue Archive for copyright infringement and Verizon for assisting it. As a non-profit, Archive will likely get away with just taking it down, but a for-profit Verizon is a wholly different story.

Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by CriticalCathed on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:34AM (#21740989)
Groups can be private or not. Require approval, or not. The archiving team isn't attempting to break into private groups and archive them. Only public groups are going to be collected.
Re:Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups –... by jolmg on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:58AM (#21744173)
Also, from one of the mails:

> The 128 people you banned were REQUESTED by the group owners to get their stuff.