Planned Outage: Wednesday, July 8th
UPDATE (7/8 3:50 pm PDT, 10:50 GMT): Maintenance is complete. All groups should again be accessible. Thank you to the affected groups for your patience!
Today, Wednesday, July 8th we will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Yahoo! Groups databases. During this time, some of you may not be able to access your groups, and group mail will be delayed.
Maintenance should take roughly two hours, and will begin at 1pm PT (8pm UTC/GMT- to determine what time the outage will take place in your neighborhood, please visit this link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html).
Once the maintenance has been completed, we will update this post.
Thanks for your patience!
Melissa Daniels
Yahoo! Community Manager
Jeremy Pender said,
July 6, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
Thank you, Melissa. Is it too much to hope that the maintenance will include restoring all the old links between Yahoo! Groups’ members lists and Yahoo! Profiles?
Tara Berardi said,
July 6, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
I am trying to work on my groups before
the outage on Wednesday I would like to catch up
before you do this.
Thank You
Shipra Devgon said,
July 6, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
Hope wont be too long! Looking forward to it being over soon.
Catherine said,
July 6, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
I have had so much trouble with your whole site that this evening, I am going to suggest that our group go elsewhere on the web. Yahoo! is really cumbersome and that’s why I’ve never had a yahoo email addresd before. I tried it once, my ID was stolen, and it was used to defraud someone on Ebay. I hate yahoo. I’m songscat@gmail.com, and very happy, thank you very much.
Mandy simplicio said,
July 6, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
You definitely have my vote for changing away from yahoo. This site is the only reason I have a Yahoo address. I became aware of Freecycle a few months ago when we donated a garage full of barely used children’s items in IL. just before we moved. Well good luck with the changes/updates. Your work is appreciated.
michael imanil said,
July 6, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
I really feel it’s about time to have some maintenance because lately, I’ve been receiving so many spams brought about by my membership of some yahoogroups. Thank you for this activity in advance.
Zarinah said,
July 6, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
Wow I wonder if this has something to do with the problems I am having inviting people to my group and not seeing my group listed in the directory. I just started the group July,2 and nobody is getting my invites, and one took several attemps to join. Anybody else having technical difficulties with group activities?
Jujeongha said,
July 6, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
Hi,Melissa.
I`m a beginner of your group in Yahoo.
But I got a big problem.
When I Punch my group`s name on search part,I couldn`t find my group.
That makes many people not to be accessible to my group.
So. Please check it out and make it worked out.
rex perez said,
July 6, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
i hope you can improve yahoo! groups postings in forums…such as posts to include photo attachments. as of now we cannot post photos in the forum…
Ray said,
July 6, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
I see so much negative stuff about Yahoo Groups on here that I have to speak up. We have had our groupon here for almost 2 years and have never had a problem. I want to thank you Melissa for all your hard work in keeping Groups up and going. We look forward to spending many more years here.
sacha moore said,
July 6, 2009 @ 7:56 pm
hiya and thanks for notification, strange ! we don’t get ANY problems so far on Yahoo Groups, very much appreciative of the service. ciao. sacha
odaat331@comcast.net said,
July 6, 2009 @ 8:09 pm
I hope this update fixes the search capabilities with the groups messages! It a super important component of the groups that we need back ASAP! It has been available for far too long!
Thanks!
Robert said,
July 6, 2009 @ 9:05 pm
Nothing but trouble trying to get on to my group via
Yahoo. You’ve chosent the right name for your “service’!!
Denver said,
July 6, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
I am the founder of eight current groups on Yahoo!, the oldest of which was converted from eGroups 10 years ago.
There have been many problems over the years.
The most pernicious problem belying many complaints in that Yahoo! mail marks messages from your own groups as spam.
Even flagging it as not spam does not prevent it from being marked as spam again later.
I think many other mail systems also mark Yahoo! group mail as spam because it has “Precedence: Bulk” and is so widely distributed that it appears to be spam.
Probably many subscribers have taken to marking there group mail as spam rather than unsubscribing.
Surely many careless groups are a distribution tool for spam.
I moderate all my groups and have never permitted a spam message or chain letter to be distributed.
Most groups are unmoderated and have probably been a conduit for billions of spam messages.
Mohamed A. Rahman said,
July 6, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
Dear melissa,
Thanks a million for the info. Have a good one.
Mohamed A. Rahman
wendy said,
July 6, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
I’ve moderated groups on Yahoo for 5000 members since 2004 and there haven’t been any huge problems. The problems seem more recently related to the “upgrades”. The search function isn’t working correctly and things seem very slow to respond in general. It just takes time to get used to a new interface so the new people – just give it some time to get used to it. I haven’t found other sites to be significantly better.
Abdul Kadir Natali said,
July 7, 2009 @ 3:08 am
i am the owner of ehisguysngals@yahoogroups.com but couldnt send emails to the group….there has been a problem for a long time now
Cynthia said,
July 7, 2009 @ 3:17 am
I’ve had yahoogroups since 1999. I’ve tried some other sources, but U always come back to Yahoo. I’m a professional food writer and depend heavily on the search factor in my food groups. That’s my main complaint. There are minor glitches now and then, but I prefer yahoo over all the others. Thanks for your hard work, Melissa et al, I love Yahoo..
Hugs
Syed Shafiudeen said,
July 7, 2009 @ 3:27 am
Dear Melissa,
Thanks for the info. U could have mailed to the respective Moderators it could have helped us a lot…
Peter Lloyd said,
July 7, 2009 @ 4:13 am
I have a problem.
This email address is registered with Yahoo Groups and is the one to which you send the messages to one of the groups I belong to. However if I send a message to the group from this address, it never arrives and I don’t get an error message.
I have tried changing to another registered email address but I still cannot get messages to come through. I have to do it from the Yahoo Groups web page for my group (LX200).
What is wrong, please.
Peter
Sonia said,
July 7, 2009 @ 4:33 am
thanks for sharing the update.
Paul Wilson said,
July 7, 2009 @ 4:44 am
Thanks for the heads up,keep us posted…
Steven Titchenell said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:28 am
I would agree that Yahoo groups need maintenance if:
1)Maintenance ever helped anything
2)The databases is one of the few areas of groups that I never have trouble with
solarlotus said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:57 am
love yahoo!!!!…especially love Yahoo groups – it is amazing the amount one can learn from so many groups!!!! Yahoo phone out/in is super, as is the chat – think where you can put cam separate to share with lots of pals; Yahoo has it all!!! Thanks to all the good work done by Yahoo personnel – THANK YOU.
Congratulations to Yahoo on your OMG…to be rewarded for positivity is fabulous!!! About time our world acknowledged a positive approach for a change! Newspapers and news stations should take a heads up from Yahoo’s positive OMG. Positivity will be the new life trend! It is very cool that Yahoo was first to move into that reality!!! Bravo!
Colin Bowen said,
July 7, 2009 @ 7:43 am
I hope you guys can fix this site as I can’t read messages on any of my groups. I feel like throwing myself off the Severn Bridge (UK) (only joking!!). However on a happier note it’s not the end of the world – is it?
Kat. said,
July 7, 2009 @ 9:05 am
Hi. Please fix our message search. No new messages can be searched. Otherwise, our Yahoo! group is great! We have been on for 4+ years and have no problems at all, except for the message search issue.
Thanks for a terrific groups service!
Melissa Daniels said,
July 7, 2009 @ 9:31 am
@Steven Titchenell
Sorry for being unclear– when I say we’re doing maintenance on our databases this means the storage facilities that house all of the group content (photos, messages, etc.) — not the Database section within your groups.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 7, 2009 @ 10:37 am
@Jeremy Pender
Are you referring to the static text beneath a user name in the member list? (often displays Name, Location, and Age)– if so, no– this will not be fixed in this outage.
If you’re referring to someone else, perhaps you could explain a bit more. Thanks!
-Melissa
Antoinette McLoughlin said,
July 7, 2009 @ 11:03 am
Hi there,
I have forgotten the name of my yahoo account that I set up to ensure I could join limerick recycle. i would be so obliged if you would forward same to me.
many thanks
Antoinette mcloughlin, 32 Riverdale , westbury limerick
LauraF said,
July 7, 2009 @ 11:31 am
I don{t have as many complaints like some of the other people about Yahoo!Groups , but one thing that bothers me really is that i cannot find the way to send a message from other email accounts that i have , only through my Yahoo account…and i don´t understand why….Do you have company issues with the other email services????
Thanx and hope the scheduled maintenance help and work!!!!
Simon said,
July 7, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
One bit of fine tuning I hope you will be able to achieve during the “Outage” concerns the Rich Text Editor on messages. Can we hope that perhaps words set in italic when composing messages will appear in this form and not emerge in bold? Apparently – from enquiries I have made about this before – you are aware of this problem which has persisted for some time.
As a Group Owner, I have to say I have encountered no real problems, and congratulate you on the work you do.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 7, 2009 said,
July 7, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
[...] Planned Outage: Wednesday, July 8th, Yahoo! Groups Blog [...]
Harriett said,
July 7, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
I never cease to be amazed at the frequent changes and updates Yahoo feels compelled to make when there was no obvious problem.
Old adage: “If it ain’t broke; don’t fix it”
Lonewolf said,
July 7, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
Hello…
In the maintenance program you are doing…. PLEASE ! fix the members profiles, so they can be easier to set the settings ( visable or hidden). I have an yahoo profile that is supposely be visible and its not, even with all the adjustments to the settings… It is “still not visible”. . . I operate several yahoo groups and I hear this many times from the members… I ONLY approve members profiles that “ARE VISIBLE”…”blanks are denied! ! ! So can you PLEASE fix this mess…. I have heard that many members has moves to other group sites and dumped YAHOO ! ! !
I hope you can fix this very soon !
Lonewolf
owner of several yahoo groups
Kennedy Alumni Association said,
July 7, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
We have been on YahooGroups since May 2003
We have enjoyed the service with little if any issues.
We appreciate the efforts of the service team.
Thank you Melissa!
Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr
Tommy said,
July 7, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
Hey Denver!
How do you have time to moderate (8) yahoo groups?
I have trouble keeping up with only (2) groups.
Where do you find the time?
Bobby V said,
July 7, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
Catherine,
If you are really that unhappy with Yahoo, pick up your toys and get out of the sand box.
Patrick said,
July 7, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
Why can I not sign into any of my Yahoo groups?
Melissa Daniels said,
July 7, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
@Jujeongha
I just tested your group and your group showed up fine when searching for its name.
There is a slight delay between when you create a group and when it shows up in search results.
-Melissa
Jim_apuan said,
July 7, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
I am getting up to 150 spam messages per day. I am wanting to leave all groups
Sarah said,
July 7, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
Because it isn’t clear what UTC or PT is, the calculator told me that the outage would be at 6am today, through to 8am. It is now five to 10am and I still can’t get back in to retrieve details for a conference call that is meant to happen in five minutes. Would using the traditional time measurement of GMT (greenwich mean time, as on all globes printed in the wider world) kill you, Yahoo? Grr!
roxanne6j6 said,
July 7, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
Yes, PLEASE GIVE BACK OUR YAHOO PROFILES. it makes it very hard to screen new memberships.
Nate said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
thanks very much as it’s why yahoo groups are the best around thank you.
Virginia said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
I’ve been on yahoo groups since they converted from egroups. I’ve found most of the unmoderated groups are spam magnents. I’ve left the unmoderated groups because of the high level of spam I was getting from them. I own several groups on yahoo groups and I moderate all new members for a few months to make sure they aren’t spammers. I ban & remove all spammers from my groups. The only problem I’ve had is getting back posts where older posts sometimes show up that have been posted before with the same date and multiple posts of the same messages.
Horst Klaus said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
I also prefer gmail groups and gmail in general and had problems with yahoo often in the past. I have two yahoo addresses and am member of four yahoo groups.
Brijesh Kumar Saini said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:56 pm
Yes, please give back our yahoo frofiles. it makes it very hard to screen new memberships
Brijesh Kumar Saini said,
July 7, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
I also prefer gmail groups and gmail in general and had problems with yahoo often in the past. I have two yahoo addresses and am member of four yahoo groups.
Terry said,
July 7, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Ok so its playtime at Sunnyvale,
we can expect some more problems ,
shortly after the “maintenance” period .
Pity you dont use this “maintenance” time
to do something aout the yahoo group
spam and appointing responsible
moderators to take over abandoned groups ,
to purge the list of spammers .
Olive E Thomas said,
July 7, 2009 @ 8:12 pm
Hey thanks for screwing up your page code so I can’t even log in anymore. Keep getting a ‘data encryption error’. Tried to login though Yahoo mobile but those pages keep saying they’re xhtml files which apparently my browser doesn’t like…
Bruce said,
July 7, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
Gee, I like Yahoo. It’s been very good for both my own email and for our group. Do what you need to do and keep up the good work, Yahoo!
Bruce
ram said,
July 7, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
I also prefer gmail groups and gmail in general and had problems with yahoo often in the past. I have two yahoo addresses and am member of four yahoo groups.
varsha banka said,
July 7, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
Thank you, Melissa. Is it too much to hope that the maintenance will include restoring all the old links between Yahoo! Groups’ members lists and Yahoo! Profiles?
Dave said,
July 8, 2009 @ 2:14 am
The whole site is a nightmare. Who thought the software up. Someone on acid?
Pull it down and start again!
SWETAL BAROT said,
July 8, 2009 @ 4:24 am
Nothing but trouble trying to get on to my group via
Yahoo. You’ve chosent the right name for your “service’!!
Archie said,
July 8, 2009 @ 5:25 am
I, too, must commend Yahoo! Groups. I host a small number of groups that have been around for years with no problems whatsoever. Keep up the good work, Yahoo!
archiew@yahoo.com
Jeremy Pender said,
July 8, 2009 @ 5:55 am
Yes, Melissa, I did mean the static text beneath a user name in the member list. I hope the problem can be fixed next time instead.
Best wishes,
Jeremy Pender
James said,
July 8, 2009 @ 6:43 am
Yahoo! Groups gave me all the tools I needed to moderate and manage my particular group. It only took me a modest amount of time to learn them. Thanks.
amilcar said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:17 am
I am moving away from Yahoo Groups. It is truly poor planning to schedule maintenance during the day. I guess Yahoo doesn’t pay over-time for techs. I would much prefer doing any maintenance when the system has the least amount of user traffic. I guess Yahoo prefers something else. I am grateful for Google.com. Maybe FREECYCLE will wise up and move to a better community host.
BKSHARMA said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:18 am
I, too, must commend Yahoo! Groups. I host a small number of groups that have been around for years with no problems whatsoever. Keep up the good work, Yahoo
Aditya said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:20 am
Wow! Hope Yahoo! Groups will be updated with new improvements and features…
All The Best…
–
Aditya D
Maureen Koplow said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:58 am
I was knocked off my group and when I finally got back on, it asks if I want to join this group. I’m the moderator!!!!! What’s going on????
Vinod said,
July 8, 2009 @ 8:00 am
Nothing but trouble trying to get on to my group via
Yahoo. You’ve chosent the right name for your “service’
Maureen Koplow said,
July 8, 2009 @ 8:01 am
OK – so now I’m back on and it’s like nothing happened. How strange! How about doing these maintenance things in the middle of the night when there are fewer people using their computers?
yola said,
July 8, 2009 @ 9:54 am
Oh dear I hope it’s work out ! Thanks Yahoo group!
Mary Guevarez said,
July 8, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Thanks for letting us know. hope my new post will still be there.It’s great to know the group is in good hands
Lester Bugged said,
July 8, 2009 @ 11:43 am
MELISSA,
Please tell me this maintenance break is going to finally squash the most
serious of all of our bugs… THE ADULT BUG. Although you’ve been manually pulling my group out of the ADULT category daily… AND I THANK YOU… We are still being bounced into a XXX zone every single morning at 7:05am,
and it often takes hours for you to get us out of there… Case in point, it’s
11:40 am and we are still in Pornoville. PLEASE TELL ME THAT TODAY’S MAINTENANCE IS GOING TO END THIS TWO MONTH [every day] NIGHTMARE.
-Lester
ps GOOD LUCK TO YOU, GORDON & THE REST OF TEAM YAHOO WITH TODAY’S MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE/OUTAGE!
NANCY said,
July 8, 2009 @ 11:53 am
WHY DON’T YOU MAKE MORE LINES IN THE DATABASE
WAS IN HOPES THIS MAINTANCE WAS GOING TO DO SOMETHING ALONG THAT LINE OH WELL GUESS NOT
WE DO NEED MORE LINES IN THE DATABASE FOR EXCHANGES IN OUR PLASTIC CANVAS GROUPS
10 IS NOT ENOUGH
OWNER OF MANY PC GROUPS
Melissa Daniels said,
July 8, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
@Lester Bugged,
No, but we’ve pulled the adult ads from adult groups so you shouldn’t see “pornville” ads while you wait to be moved.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 8, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
@Maureen Koplow,
Groups is a global product so unfortunately no matter what time we do maintenance, it’s going to be daytime (or night) somewhere in the world.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 8, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
@Sarah,
UTC would be the same as GMT– PT is pacific time– where Yahoo! is.
GMT’s name has been changed to UTC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time)
-Melissa
John C. said,
July 8, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
I just wonder how many more OUTAGES we have to endure before Yahoo gets it right? I’ve been thru three of these planned outages now — each one promising that the SEARCH feature would be restored, but so far like just about every other complaint I’ve had — NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED, except a couple new bugs.
I know this is all FREE but then so is all the software and hosting on my own “personal” type of website and when I call and talk to a real LIVE person, the problem is FIXED within 4 HOURS (not Months or Years) like Yahoo is taking. I’m moving one of my groups off of Yahoo this Friday and the other two will be following very shortly. I SICK & TIRED OF ALL THE EMPTY PROMISES!!!
DANIEL said,
July 8, 2009 @ 2:50 pm
i like jont this group
Lawrence said,
July 8, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
I’ve had my SurvivingTheDayAfter group on yahoogroups for over 5 years.
There have been a few problems from time to time, but Yahoo has always
solved the problems in a timely manner and I’ve been pleased overall.
Thought you guys at Yahoo needed a pat on the back and some ‘attaboys’.
Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Lawrence
Richard Holzsager said,
July 8, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Any word on how much longer?
Katy Fink said,
July 8, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
Sure hope search is fixed!
Dave Harries said,
July 8, 2009 @ 4:02 pm
I have not had any huge problems with Yahoo! either and the group that I took over earlier this year, which comprises 131 members, is staying where it is.
Dave Harries,
Joint Owner, Fantasy-UK-Buses
Malc Dow said,
July 8, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
Been using Yahoo groups as Owner, Mod and member for, well, over ten years. Never a problem, not one. I am owner of 10 and a member of another 70. I have always found them fast to set up, easy to maintain and manage.
The only issue I have is the inability to reply to a group post from another email account. I have to be logged into Yahoo. But otherwise it’s free and easy. People with big issues… go use another system! Or hey, start your own!
Reduce Reuse Recycle said,
July 8, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Yeah, but NOW YahooMail is down!! Melissa, any link between these issues?
Terry said,
July 8, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
Guess Yahoo intends to do nothing about Yahoo Group
Spam or about appointing responsible moderators
to take over abandoned groups.
Makes me wonder, what connections there are between
the Spammers and Yahoo Inc, that they are allowed
to continue their practices at Yahoo ?
Similarly , there has been an increase in Grouply spam.
Why is Grouply allowed to operate using Yahoo Groups
to make money for the Grouply Owner ?
Thereis no benefit to Yahoo Groups to have Grouply
sending their spam constantly .
Lester B. said,
July 8, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
MELISSA,
That’s actually very cool. I’m sure that everyone being effected by the
ADULT BUG will be very pleased to learn that the “adult ads” have been
removed from “adult groups” This will make the adult interludes far
less problematic for the group owners who have to try and appease
all kinds of people… those that like the XXX stuff, those that don’t, and
those that do, but can’t admit it publicly. Seriously… Thanks very much!
-Lester
Benji said,
July 8, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
You are STILL broken down and out.
I suggest you hire someone from Craig’s List and repair, please.
Christos Politis said,
July 8, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
Dear Melissa:
Thanks for the information.
For a couple of weeks my YAHOOGROUP List “The Old Calendarist” is having
problems with the postings in Greek language. After choosing the choice of
language, in this case Greek, still YAHOOGROOPS does not recognize the
Greek alphabet. The whole texts appear as illegible symbols which can not be read. Can you help me to correct this problem, please?
Thank you, Melissa
Christos Politis
The Old Calendarist List owner
ccampbell said,
July 8, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
I lost access to 3 of my groups during your maintenance today. I see that the upgrades are complete, but I have NOT regained access.
please advise. thanks
Melissa Daniels said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
@John C,
Sorry to hear you’re so frustrated– however, just wanted to point out one thing: we regularly perform system maintenance (just like today’s) for a variety of reasons. None of these outages have ever claimed to fix the search issue, as that is not the purpose of an outage. Instead, an outage is done for other reasons (not for product fixes/pushes)– we push out fixes/products without any downtime, and do these on a bi-weekly or weekly basis.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
@Reduce Reuse Recycle,
No– be sure to check the mail blog (http://ymailblog.com) for more information about Mail issues/outages, etc.
-Melissa
Melissa Daniels said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
@Terry,
Group moderators and owners can prevent Grouply spam– if a group you’re a member of does not do this, I suggest talking to the moderator or owner. Grouply is in no way a partner of Yahoo or Yahoo Groups.
For more info on preventing Grouply from being a part of your Group, please check out this link from Grouply on how to opt out of communication: http://blog.grouply.com/owners/
-Melissa
Vincent Wells said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:20 pm
My goodness, I barely joined the group. Its best to be extra patient. Yahoo is
a hot target. Babies.
Tracy said,
July 8, 2009 @ 7:42 pm
Hey Melissa, Thanks for your hard work. Don’t know if my group was affected by the maintainance or not, seemed to work all afternoon, however, as group owner, I am not receiving “pending message” notifications at all. Was working this morning. Went to the homepage and there were a bunch of them that had been sitting for a while, as I wasn’t notified. Is Yahoo aware of this or do I need to contact customer care?
Bennie said,
July 8, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
Again my password doesn’t work. I have re-set it so many times. It worked this morning and now tonight at 9:04 p. m. mst. it won’t work. What are we supposed to do. It is very aggivating to not be able to sign in.
ffff said,
July 8, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
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sachin said,
July 8, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
i want no commants
sasisri said,
July 8, 2009 @ 9:18 pm
hi frnds
sasisri said,
July 8, 2009 @ 9:19 pm
hi frnds how r u
wendy A. said,
July 8, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
I am going to get two cavaliers someday.
A ruby color, and a tricolor.
they are so cute, I have two pomeranians now.
One chocolate red sable, and One cream sable they are cute.
John C. said,
July 8, 2009 @ 9:48 pm
Melissa,
Maybe I should go find that message you guys sent out about the 25th of May saying that ALL groups could finally “expect” the Search feature would be restored no later than the end of the month. Of course, I must’ve misunderstood WHICH MONTH you were referring to!
What’s bad news for me at least is that I have a bunch of whiny babies that every time something hiccups, I am personally to blame. All the promises that are made by Yahoo means nothing–I can fix it can’t I, is what I keep hearing.
Well I can/could if you’d just let me into your establishment and have access to that broken down server that you keep putting on the back burner. Well, after I leave, you will have one more open slot for some other poor schmuck who thinks you are the greatest service in the world. I know I should be giving you big compliments and telling you how wonderful this “service” is, but I really cannot! Sorry!!!
John C.
Jennifer said,
July 8, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
I’ll second one of the comments made previously. Since the maintenance, I am not receiving notices of pending moderated posts in my personal email address. I depend on these to moderate my group. Hope it’s fixed soon…
Thanks!
Jennifer
Cathy B. said,
July 8, 2009 @ 10:01 pm
I have noticed that I also have not been receiving any pending message notices since this afternoon. And I checked with another moderator who has found the same thing happening with her groups. I am making an effort to check the group regularly, but wonder if you have any idea what caused this or when it will be working again? Thanks.
-Cathy B.
anil said,
July 8, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
hi frendddddddddddddddd
anil said,
July 8, 2009 @ 10:11 pm
love frendddddddddddddddddd
Mel Rothenberg said,
July 8, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
I am the moderator of the NOIRAQWAR group.
I am also not receiving any pending messages notices since this afternoon. I can check the group and moderate at the site but it is much more convenient to get the notices. Like Cathy I wonder when this will be working again?
Mel
Gavin said,
July 8, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
I run several Yahoo groups and since the outage I’ve lost 3 with no explanation. How do I find out why my groups have gone?
Gavin said,
July 8, 2009 @ 10:46 pm
My groups have just reappeared so you can ignore my last post.
ilyas said,
July 9, 2009 @ 12:18 am
thanks for sharing the updates.
angelina said,
July 9, 2009 @ 12:24 am
thanks alot
pramod kumar said,
July 9, 2009 @ 12:37 am
hi freind m pramod from kidderpore i want to join this group my phone no is 9051347712.i m very happy to see you’ll.but when i can c u reply me .as soon as possible
rammu said,
July 9, 2009 @ 12:38 am
very nice picture
aimar musa said,
July 9, 2009 @ 12:45 am
just membershib friends…………………… yep nice contact
behnam said,
July 9, 2009 @ 12:56 am
just membershib friends…..yep nice contact
behnam said,
July 9, 2009 @ 1:01 am
hello man behnam hastam dost daram dar in sait ozve shovam.
Mariana said,
July 9, 2009 @ 1:16 am
Dear ALBA friends!
Have anyone has a spare room to let or referral to one in Hemel Heampsted vast area or around the Buddhist Monastery, please let me know. I have two weeks to move ,so please let me know asap.Thanks in advance for your attention, much appreciated.
Mariana
Terry said,
July 9, 2009 @ 1:39 am
Hi Melissa,
The link you sent me to do something about Grouply
spam goes to a Grouply website and I never visit
spammers websites.
Grouply was never invited into my group, they
gatecrashed it.
If Grouply has any business ethics , they would immediately
remove all Yahoo Groups added to their database that
did not request being part of their operation .
As you now inform me that
“Grouply is in no way a partner of Yahoo or Yahoo Groups”
Yahoo Inc should request that this be done on behalf
of all Yahoo Group Owners.
Terry
Yash said,
July 9, 2009 @ 1:45 am
Yes, please give back our yahoo frofiles. it makes it very hard to screen new memberships
Edy Praz said,
July 9, 2009 @ 1:54 am
Thanks for the heads up,keep us posted…
ram kumar sharma said,
July 9, 2009 @ 2:09 am
Nothing but trouble trying to get on to my group via
Yahoo. You’ve chosent the right name for your “service’!!
James said,
July 9, 2009 @ 2:10 am
Wonderful, a better way to share info with my collegues.
ahmed said,
July 9, 2009 @ 3:39 am
Yes, please give back our yahoo frofiles. it makes it very hard to screen new memberships
Walt Hutchens said,
July 9, 2009 @ 4:16 am
Another maintenance, another new problem. I struggled for a solid year with Y’hoo repeatedly resetting my moderator email address to a long dead one. That’s a problem, since I use the email interface for moderation on a very active list. Nobody could suggest a fix and there was evidently no interest at Yahoo in finding the bug. Finally, per suggestion, I created a new Y ID and changed over to moderating from that one. That has worked — no more resets to a dead address — for more than a year.
And now I’ve got the problem again. With 60+ messages a day, I haven’t had a moderation message since afternoon of 7/8. Why? Because my moderation address — the same one I’ve been using for several years — is ‘not available,’ and Y’hoo is resetting it to the same long dead one — an address I have NEVER used with this Yahoo ID. I was able to fix it that evening, but I never got any moderate messages and I see that it’s ‘not available’ again this AM.
Actually, that’s not quite true. I have gotten one membership approval at the correct address. And once I approve messages at the web site, I get them at correct address — it really IS a working address. But the moderate messages are simply disappearing into cyberspace.
The claimed reason for ‘not available’ is ‘in use by another ID’ — perhaps the one I had to abandon for this list? But I own and moderate a dozen or more lists, and most of them, I’ll bet, via that old ID. I’m not going to be allowed to simply delete it.
Yahoo Groups is conceptually a wonderful service and most of the time, most of it works very well. But these repeated breakings of long-working features — generally treated as “Huh? Can’t be OUR problem …” — are a royal pain.
Stephanie said,
July 9, 2009 @ 4:19 am
I’m still experiencing the mail problem mentioned above (http://bit.ly/qlI9K) regarding pending messages.
wleam said,
July 9, 2009 @ 4:52 am
Thanks for the info. U could have mailed to the respective Moderators it could have helped us a lot
Lori said,
July 9, 2009 @ 4:59 am
Melissa,
I have two groups, and don’t have a lot of issues, but our main one is:
We area freecycle type group, and we require that an offer be given prior to posting a want. We used the search feature all the time to check this. Now we can’t so our site has become a free-for-all. The search feature needs to be returned so we can go back to this group requirement.
Also, we LOVE the new applications, and are using it daily!
Thanks for all your hard work!
Fr. Ponpon said,
July 9, 2009 @ 5:43 am
Dear Melissa,
Congratulations for all your efforts. This is a good start for all of us. Let us all continue to work for Justice and Peace. God bless us all!
Stephanie Hunt-Crowley said,
July 9, 2009 @ 6:02 am
Maintenance is NOT complete – it is now 900am EDT on Thursday July 8 and the group I moderate is down – how do I know? I wrote a post two hours ago and nothing has shown up on the list since 230am EDT and we have people in all time zones including overseas. Also I tried to contact customer care yesterday re a Y Mail issue and was unable to do so. I was sent to an endless loop of links with no way to write and explain the problem.
Yogesh Desai said,
July 9, 2009 @ 6:48 am
I am not getting mails from your group since last one month
Please let me know if you have stopped the service
CHRISTOPHER CHILES said,
July 9, 2009 @ 7:01 am
I live in south caolina in the USA WHAT TIME WILL THIS CONVERSION TAKE PLACE AND END ?
EMAIL ME ALSO AT chiles43@hotmail.com make Subject CONVERSION
AGAIN
THANKS
AND HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY
Alicia Bryant said,
July 9, 2009 @ 7:53 am
I’ve had such a hard time trying to join that I’ve decided its not worth my time sorry this is very frustrating.
totem said,
July 9, 2009 @ 8:44 am
thank you very much. we had a problem of not getting the correct SEARCH results when we post a Search command on messages archives.
I hope this corrects soon bec the group is faulty.
dear yahoo administration : you need to do something to make yahoo appealing because facebook has taken all the users.
we are fighting hard to keep our yahoo groups.
thank you for your notes on maintenance.
virginia orrall said,
July 9, 2009 @ 9:26 am
its thursday now and this is the very first time that i have witnessed this warning from yesterday’s outage for maintenance.
i sent a message to wcg doctrine which seems to be lost in outer space.should i try to send it all over or will it come back ?
thank you,virginiaO
Elisabeth Sacktobn said,
July 9, 2009 @ 9:51 am
I still seem to be having trouble getting an email out to my group.
dave said,
July 9, 2009 @ 10:10 am
GMT’s name was changed to UTC because it seemed arrogant to expect the whole planet to define local time by reference to the local time in an obscure part of an island near one of the smallest continents. (France tried for years to have Paris time adopted at least as a second standard). Now it’s WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY worse, now we expect the whole universe to do the same thing!
Boon said,
July 9, 2009 @ 10:12 am
I wonder My People/ Members are complaining that all the emails from our group is GOING TO On SPAM any Idea Is this Problem With Yahoo Groups ??? Or Yahoo Email Service .
Well This is an Severe Prob Yahoo Team Should Resolve This ASAP.
Thanks
BooN
Teri said,
July 9, 2009 @ 10:35 am
I’m the moderator of WelshSpringer_H and it appears I’m no long a group member. What’s up?
Teri
Kath Baer said,
July 27, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
I have not been recieving my own messages send to yahoogroups since this maintence/work. Anyone have any ideas?
moira elvidge said,
August 2, 2009 @ 10:29 am
i have been waiting for the past 2 weeks to become a member of the leeds west yorkshire but it just keeps on saying my membership is pending how much longer will it take or should i just go and take what i have to the tip
ravi balraj said,
September 16, 2009 @ 6:53 am
I have been trying in vain to unsubscibe from a yahoo group oba-sskzm. Kindly help
Dave Mertz said,
September 18, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
Melissa:
Over this past week, I suddently stopped getting messages from my group. I have my comcast address listed as my primary email. I went into my profile and moderator sector and just hit updated or save changes. When I did this, I am still experiencing problems with getting emails including the ones that I send out. Can you please see that this problem is fixed right away, I feel that I ‘ve done everything that I can from this end. Before this week, I was receiving messages and then all of a sudden it stopped, thanks
Dave