Subject: A system notification message from Yahoo! Groups
>
>
> On the morning of 8th November, Yahoo! Groups will down for
> 30 minutes
> for a system upgrade. During that time the website will be
unavailable
> but email to groups will be queued for delivery later. We are
> making the
> following upgrades to the Yahoo! Groups product:
>
> 1) New Email Format
> 2) Grouping Messages by Topic (Message Threading)
> 3) Advanced Search Functionality
> 4) Automatic Spam Suppression
> 5) Integration with Yahoo! Answers
>
> 1) New Email Format: Learn more about it here
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/groups/email/
>
> The default message format for Groups email will change to a new,
two
> column structure called the "fully featured" format. We have also
> upgraded the daily digest to make the index clickable and to sort
> messages by subject as well as chronologically to make it possible
for
> users to read only the topics they are interested in and to skip the
> rest.
>
> We are also maintaining the "Traditional" Groups email
> format, so users
> will have the option to choose the format that works best for them.
>
> 2) Grouping Messages by Topic (Message Threading): Learn more about
it
> here http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/groups/messages/
>
> The new "group by topic" feature (or "Topic View") in the Messages
> section and on the Group Home Page enables users to find all the
posts
> in a specific conversation (or thread) together.
>
> 3) The advanced search functionality: Learn more about it here
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/groups/search/
>
> The core search functionality has been upgraded. It will now
> search the
> entire message archive of a group, no matter how many
> messages have been
> posted, faster and comprehensively.
>
> 4) Support for Spam filtering: Learn more about it here
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/groups/spamfilter/
>
> Yahoo! Groups already routes all message through our SpamGuard spam
> identification and tags messages identified as potential spam. Now,
> these messages will no longer be posted automatically in unmoderated
> groups. Instead, they will be put in a special "Pending Spam" folder
> where a group owner or moderator can review and either
> approve or delete
> the message.
>
> 5) Yahoo! Answers Integration: Learn more about it here
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/groups/answers/
>
> Groups will be integrating with Yahoo! Answers through an "Answers
> Module" that will appear on the Group Home Page. Groups will have
the
> ability to choose the specific Answers category that is most
> relevant to
> their group. And as with all functionality on Groups today, it is
the
> owner/moderator of the group that gets to decide whether an
> application appears in the group at all.
>
> Please alert your group members to these changes, so they are
> not surprised by
> either the downtime or the new functionalities.
>
> Thank you,
>
> - Yahoo! Groups
>