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Yahoo deleting Geocities sites

I just got this notice from Geocities... Apparently they were about ready to delete my first website, built in 1998. If you have anything there with sentimental value, better check it...

Quote:

Your GeoCities Service

Dear GeoCities Member (2nd notice),

We noticed that you haven't updated your web site in a while. If you wish to keep your web site,
we encourage you to update it within the next 3
days so that it will not be deleted due to
inactivity. If your web site is deleted, visitors
will no longer be able to access your web site
and all files will be permanently deleted.

Updating your site can be as easy. Just modify
any web page in your directory and save it.

If your web site needs require more functionality,
you may want to take a look at any of our new
premium packages. You can read more about them
at http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info/. Premium
members not only get great features, but are also
ensured against deletions due to inactivity.

Thank you for using GeoCities.

The Yahoo! GeoCities Team

and if you send it to 15 of your friends, and they send it to 15 of their friends, Geocities will be forced not to delete any more websites....

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Originally Posted by NoWhErE

and if you send it to 15 of your friends, and they send it to 15 of their friends, Geocities will be forced not to delete any more websites....

Actually I thought it was a phishing email at first, but it's for real. They had actually suspended the site.

hehe i love going back looking at old stuff, it's like "wow what a fucking noob i was back then"

Damn that sucks. I'll have to check if any of my old stuff is still there.

damn.. dont have anything over there thank god.

good deal :) fuck geocities

web.archive.org has all your sites backed up :)

More like geoshities. Although I do remember having a site there around.. 1996. I'm pretty sure it's been deleted :P

that sucks i guess for people that have their free sites. i have always paid for mine....

Is that a NEW policy? I thought they already had a rule that if you didn't update within a certain period of time they deleted it.

huh? why do they need to delete sites?

Yahoo sucks. Always has...always will. They're among the ranks of organizations that embraces copyright infringement.

yea those pricks owned one of my really old sites i made back when i was haxin up notepad . :(

That seems like a kinda sucky thing to do. I wouldn't think they would need the diskspace, so I'm not sure what the advantage of deleting people's sites would be.

I've never seen a geocities website that didnt like pure dog poop. They should delete them all.

You knew it was gonna happen someday. I can't remember all of them I did. Had a list, damn if I know what I did with it. Plus all those different email accounts...

It is the best thing that could happen... millions of useless pages flushed.

good thing i don't have any stuff in there but surely lots of people won't like it.

Some other free hosting services do the same. The point here is to get rid of stale and forgotten pages.