Yahoo groups closes archives.

A month or so ago, group owners and moderators were contacted to announce the closure of many features of yahoo groups.    If can still be used for mailing, but the files, links, and photographs will be deleted today.     

 It grieves me as an archivist to see the past wiped away.    We all bought into the Yahoo groups concept and built our sites to reflect the interests of our members.   Hours and hours of planning and uploading built our sites. 

Yahoo offered some suggestions on how to salvage our files, but for some of us, they were not accessible or usable.    As moderator of several groups representing 100+ members, it saddens me to see our hard work erased. 

 I notified members several times that they would need to download anything they wanted to save, and thats the best I could do.  I hope those readers who were members of groups took the time to review and save things to your personal devices.



The mixed media site was set up in 2009. The others were added later as new groups were formed that coyld benefit from the group features for sharing communications, calendars, polls, files, photographs, links, and resources.