As I read this, I expect that the email archives will be deleted along with the rest of the non-email content come December.
The whole point of this exercise seems to be to get Yahoo *out* of anything to do with hosting user-created material on its servers -- not that surprising right now, with Facebook in trouble for mismanaging data and both the FCC and Congress in a mood to impose new regulations on social media. In that context, pure mailing lists probably look a H*ll of a lot safer from a liability standpoint than hosted content archives, if you're lawyering for a social media site.
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As I read this, I expect that the email archives will be deleted along with the rest of the non-email content come December.
The whole point of this exercise seems to be to get Yahoo *out* of anything to do with hosting user-created material on its servers -- not that surprising right now, with Facebook in trouble for mismanaging data and both the FCC and Congress in a mood to impose new regulations on social media. In that context, pure mailing lists probably look a H*ll of a lot safer from a liability standpoint than hosted content archives, if you're lawyering for a social media site.