Stop Yahoo's Message Archive Changes

To:  Yahoo Groups Team

Please sign this petition,
To: Yahoo! Groups Team Yahoo

We, the undersigned urge you to please recondiser the changes you are making to Yahoo! concerning the Message Archive.

This is part of the letter sent by Yahoo! Groups Team

"- Message Attachments: Yahoo! Groups will continue to deliver all
attachments sent via email, however, the attachments will no longer be
archived within the Messages area. You may continue to upload files
and images to the Files and Photos areas of your groups. Please
re-upload any attachments you would like to preserve to the Photos or
Files areas of your group. On Aug. 7, all attachments in the Messages
area will be removed, and Yahoo! will be unable to retrieve such data.

- Add Members: The "Add Members" feature will now allow you to add 10
new members per day (e.g., the ability to directly add your friends
and family to your group). You may still use the "Invite Members"
feature to invite others to join your group.

- Files and Photos: Groups web membership will be required to access a
group's Files and Photos areas."


Have you taken into consideration what this will do to the Graphics/PSP and related groups?? Yahoo promises "to continue offering a compelling, high quality, free service." Yet you are taking away a main and very important feature to graphic related groups.

A very simple solution instead of taking the feature away from us completley would be to allow us to have the messages archived for at least two days max, then have them deleted,Graphics groups depend HIGHLY on mail attachments. Taking this feature away is taking a group away. Graphics groups receive hundreds of attachments each day. For members to have to upload to the files area is nothing but a hassle for everyone concerned.
many members also read from the web as they belong to several groups, this feature will not work at all for those users.

We would have to come up with better solutions such as creating web pages to share images or other sources that I feel is unnecessary, Or simply move our groups to a community that allows file sharing. I feel Yahoo! will, in turn lose MANY groups.

Why?? members do not want to have to go into files we want to be able to share via e mail.

Your new change will make things very complicated and I do STRESS, it is a unwanted change within Yahoo! groups

Once again, the undersigned urge you to please recondiser the changes you are making to Yahoo! concerning the Message Archive.

Thank you,
Yahoo Moderators and Members

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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