[Bilgemaster]

I was saddened to learn today Yahoogroups, the playpen of fringe interest forums, including the once popular Royal Enfield Group, is going belly up very soon. According to the Ars Technica  article, "Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups", one has until December 14th to download files before everything's permanently blasted into the aether.

Aside from lamenting the permanent loss of all those accumulated photos, searchable tips and other musings of 2,578 members since 1998, those who once were active there might wish to take a little time before the lights are shut down forever to browse through some of the items in its "Files Section". There are some real jewels there to be salvaged, including Royal Enfield catalogs and brochures galore from the '30s, '40s and '50s, an historic interview with its chief designer, R.A. Wilson-Jones, about the then-new Bullet engine published in '54 in The Motor Cycle, a full PDF of Keith Hamilton's memoirs, Motorcycle Days, everything you'd ever want to know about sidecars in Hal Kendall's 130 page manual, etc., &c., et cetera. In short, there's a lot there to be missed.

Full disclosure: I've had a jaundiced view of Yahoo since they bought and then shut down the old Geocities free website service after hamfistedly fucking it up. In a way I'm sort of glad they're at last circling the bowl in the very same leaky Oath subsidiary boat as Verizon's other ugly red haired stuttering stepchild AOL. I remember Yahoo when it was still hosted under the Stanford.edu domain. It kinda sucked then, and it just never quit sucking.

[Enfield Pro]

I have some server space I'll see what I can to about preserving the content. In mothballs is better then firebombed.

[tooseevee]

I was saddened to learn today Yahoogroups, the playpen of fringe interest forums, including the once popular Royal Enfield Group, is going belly up very soon. According to the Ars Technica  article, "Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups", one has until December 14th to download files before everything's permanently blasted into the aether.

Aside from lamenting the permanent loss of all those accumulated photos, searchable tips and other musings of 2,578 members since 1998, those who once were active there might wish to take a little time before the lights are shut down forever to browse through some of the items in its "Files Section". There are some real jewels there to be salvaged, including Royal Enfield catalogs and brochures galore from the '30s, '40s and '50s, an historic interview with its chief designer, R.A. Wilson-Jones, about the then-new Bullet engine published in '54 in The Motor Cycle, a full PDF of Keith Hamilton's memoirs, Motorcycle Days, everything you'd ever want to know about sidecars in Hal Kendall's 130 page manual, etc., &c., et cetera. In short, there's a lot there to be missed.

Full disclosure: I've had a jaundiced view of Yahoo since they bought and then shut down the old Geocities free website service after hamfistedly fucking it up. In a way I'm sort of glad they're at last circling the bowl in the very same leaky Oath subsidiary boat as Verizon's other ugly red haired stuttering stepchild AOL. I remember Yahoo when it was still hosted under the Stanford.edu domain. It kinda sucked then, and it just never quit sucking.

       I'm glad I've never had anything to do with many of them: Yahoo!, AOL, Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, Twatter, Yammer, Stammer or SmartPhones or cell phones in general. STill don't have one   Still have an answering machine and NEVER pick it up 'til I know who it is. This is now the ONLY "forum" I belong to.

[heloego]

Sorry to hear you don't have a cell/smart phone tsv. Just think of all the "entertainment" yer missing in the form of misdialed calls from drunks, charity request/scams, recently-expired warranty extensions for your vehicle, credit card debt solutions, threats from phony IRS agents, and last but not least...debt collection agencies who bought a bad debt from someone who used YOUR # to open an account somewhere. 
Ain't technology great! 

[Richard230]

Here is my smart phone.   

[tooseevee]

Sorry to hear you don't have a cell/smart phone tsv. Just think of all the "entertainment" yer missing in the form of misdialed calls from drunks, charity request/scams, recently-expired warranty extensions for your vehicle, credit card debt solutions, threats from phony IRS agents, and last but not least...debt collection agencies who bought a bad debt from someone who used YOUR # to open an account somewhere. 
Ain't technology great! 

          I get ALL that crap!!  But I don't ANswer the phone 

          Most RoboCalls detect the answering machine and immediately click off. All I hear is a beep.

[tooseevee]

Here is my smart phone.   

             Believe it or not we have one of those. It sits on a shelf waiting for the answering machine to shit the bed. We then use it until a new ans mach comes from Ebay.

             My phone bill's $27 a month.