what is this "error 999" I keep getting from Yahoo Group?
 

Every damn time I a visit a few yahoo groups, after 200 or so, I get this message:

"Unable to process request at this time -- error 999
Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later."

And I cannot visit anymore groups for another 5-12 hours. The few people I contacted had no problem accessing Yahoo groups while I couldn't so I suspect they don't want us to visit too many groups and use this BS "error 999" to lock us out, sort like a cool off period.

Is there a way I can bypass this "error 999" ?

You can use a proxy :)

And yes its basically a yahoo lockout procedure for any of yahoo services that feel you might be abusing the software.

Anyone know how to settup proxy with Firefox?

Yeah proxies are helpful.

stop spamming :P

haha

its pretty basic.

Open up options then go to connection seetings , click manual setup , enter the proxy and port under http and your set

Not spamming. I'm just doing research work:winkwink: