Yahoo Groups? That Muthafucka D E A D

[trillingstar]

Speaking for the Twisted Sisterhood and TSXF lists & offered to Oz fandom at large but also ICYMI for everyone else;

Yahoo Groups are removing themselves from the internet permanently and taking your content, writing, and messages with them. Starting on October 28th, no one will be able to upload any new content. On December 14th, 2019, ALL

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[vanillalime]

I never really used these groups, since their time had pretty much passed by the time I discovered the Oz fandom. But I thought I'd comment on a few things:

1. I see that the Lee Tergesen group no longer exists, which I think is something that happened fairly recently. I guess Anne deleted it for whatever reason? There wasn't a ton of content there anyway.

2. I'm not sure if you're aware, but Tesan passed away a couple of years ago. If she was the only mod for a group, that might complicate any attempts at its preservation?

3. But then do you want me to go ahead and pass along copies of the back-ups/archives to Open Doors (and, essentially, the Archive and its affiliated volunteers)? // I would kill love to see all those B/K fics up on AO3 for other fans to enjoy (& to revisit for ourselves). YES YES YES. I can't imagine anyone having problems with this, but I guess you never know. I tried to browse through old stories on TS a few times using the awesome lists that Sue compiled, but the "Message number" procedure was so awkward,

[suespur]

TSXF is intended to be fanfic only -- any fandom and/or OT discussion is supposed to take place at TS.

ETA:

I just checked my groups list and I'm also a member of cellblock5 (which hasn't had any significant activity since 2009), OzFic (none since 2007), and PodMates (none since 2004). PodMates was a UK-based list for Oz fans that seemed to have fizzled out shortly after the show ended.

I'm thinking Tesan may have owned the OzFic group... I know she posted there.

[vanillalime]

Ah, thanks. It sounds like I probably should've joined a couple of other groups at least. And now it's too late! :(

[suespur]

Eh, not really. Almost all of the fic on TS/TSXF was cross-posted in those groups as well.

[lisacali]

I emailed, but will say the same here, anything you are willing to do would be so appreciated!

[trillingstar]

I got your email as well! I have a bit of an update that I'll post when I hear back from OTW, it's good and bad? The good is that I've managed to "save" TS and TSXF but the ~bad is that I don't know how any of this could be made easily accessible etc. I'll post more on it tho. Thank you for weighing in *hugs*