They had already made the changes to regular Yahoo!Groups at
groups.yahoo.com, so I guess that it is UK Yahoo!Groups turn

bookwyrm

--- In mini-jack@..., Megan Entecott <marajade764@...>
wrote:
>
> I recieved this email from Yahoo, and thought you'd want to be made
aware (I'm assuming that they havent sent it to all of you). Basicall
on the 8th November the group will be unavailable for about 30mins at
some point. Below are the extensive reasons why. Looks promising...
providing nothing goes wrong!
>
> Megan
>
> Yahoo! Groups <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Date: 07 Nov 2006 05:34:45 -0000
> To: marajade764@...
> From: Yahoo! Groups <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
> 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
>
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> Yes I'm a crazy person and No I don't care.
>
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