Monthly Archives: December 2008

Three Bug Fixes

Three pieces of very good news on the bug front this week: 1. Yahoo!’s operations team has figured out how to redirect traffic around the "severed cable problem ", eliminating significant email delays for groups (note: there was a separate … Continue reading

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Severed Cable Likely to Cause Delays

Update: As noted below, the problems caused by the severed cable are NOT limited to Yahoo! users in India. ALL groups are potentially affected. That said, it’s certainly possible that other issues, unrelated to the cable, may also be causing … Continue reading

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Join Problem Affecting Broadband Partner Users (AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, British Telecom, Telecom New Zealand)

UPDATE: It appears the work around described below does NOT work for Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) users. Until we can push a fix,  there only option is to join groups as email only users by being added or subscribing via … Continue reading

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Groups Moderator Town Hall events

Thanks to all of the moderators who joined us at one of our Groups Moderator Town Hall events held in various geographical locations across the nation in 2008! At these events, we give local moderators an opportunity to come together … Continue reading

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Bug good news/bad news: Calendar and Pending Messages

Because of a hardware problem at one of Yahoo’s colocations, a number of Yahoo! properties are having technical issues. Yahoo! Groups users are being slightly affected because the Yahoo! Calendar (which Groups leverages) is temporarily "read only" (meaning you can’t … Continue reading

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Featured Group – Gift of Loving Kindness

Since the holidays are traditionally a time when we turn our thoughts to others, I felt it would be a perfect time to feature the Gift Of Lovingkindness group as somewhat of a reminder that positive and loving thoughts and … Continue reading

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You asked, we listened – Storing Email Attachments

Update: 12/4 11:20 AM PT- We’re aware of the problem some groups are having approving pending messages with images and are working on a fix. This issue is unrelated to the coming change with attachment storage (no code for that … Continue reading

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