On 4/20/13 2:nn PM, "" <@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

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      >I'll volunteer my time, if someone can point me in the right direction.
      >
      >I like history, and am a data packrat, so to speak. I don't want to lose
      >the data.

      There's a difference between throwing away data and not giving it to
      someone just because he doesn't like how his business decisions turned
      out. I suspect we're not actually losing the data.

      The guy is being a tool about his unhappiness with how it's ending, going
      so far as to very subtly solicit anyone with access to the whole database
      to send him a copy on the QT. In discussing how people are scraping pages
      as quickly as they can, he says "While companies like Yahoo work to
      destroy as much human history as possibleŠ"

      I guess I didn't realize that the stockholders are under some obligation
      to pay for the servers and electricity to keep upcoming, geocities, etc.
      online FOREVER.

      He could have included provisions about what happened if Y! shut down
      upcoming in his contract, but he apparently didn't. Too bad!

      I agree with one thing he says. If he couldn't live with all of the
      possible consequences of selling to Yahoo, he shouldn't have done it.

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      >On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:nn PM, "" <@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
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      >> My final thought on this: the best revenge is living well. We need to
      >>continue to do great work and release great products so the story stops
      >>being about how we are shutting down failures.
      >>
      >> In regards to the dump: I assume legal/privacy. Someone needs to write
      >>a tool probably to dump the public data, and who has the time?
      >>
      >> On Apr 19, 2013, at 16:nn, "" <@yahoo-inc.com>
      >>wrote:
      >>
      >>> Andy has a long rant at his site:
      >>> http://waxy.org/2013/04/the_death_of_upcomingorg/
      >>>
      >>> I somewhat agree with him: why can't we just dump an
      >>> archive and make it available to the public?
      >>> Anyone here with access to servers care to comment?
      >>>
      >>> I just hate to collect any more negativity than we
      >>> already get.
      >>>
      >>>
      >>>
      >>>
      >>> --