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Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

RamenJunkie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:29:46 -0000

I already host my website from my home. This is part of why I'm not overly worried about losing my content.

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

bconnell — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:56:01 -0000

If companies do start tanking, how long before people go back to hosting their own websites in their basements? Or the return of internet appliances?

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

Andrew — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:33:02 -0000

You gotta wonder how many Facebook / Yahoo! / etc companies are looking at rising hosting costs, lower share values, less interest in advertising and lower revenues, and no end in sight and are regretting not taking offers while they were around.

Hopefully they can last the long haul through this - but I can't imagine many toga parties on the company dime.

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

Gregor Rothfuss — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:48:34 -0000

http://www.freepops.org/en/ allows you to scrape your Yahoo mail. It worked ok for the emails that I wanted to liberate about two years ago. It is quite sad that a company who put openness onto their banner is holding user data hostage.

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

RamenJunkie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:20:22 -0000

I've already set up a Twitter feed backup to a wordpress blog. My Flickr photos are all also on my local hard drives and I host my website myself. I use Godaddy as a registrar so I'm not too worried about them dropping out, heck Flickr is owned by Yahoo so they probably aren't going anywhere either, only Twitter is a service I'd be disappointed to see fail. Maybe Picnik but Picnik doesn't store anything itself.

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

logicalextremes — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:12:33 -0000

Yahoo Mail Classic (free) unfortunately doesn't have POP, IMAP, or bulk forwarding. So you're left with either individually saving or forwarding, or upgrading to Mail Plus ($20/yr) and POPing everything. Maybe someone knows a way to script Yahoo webmail. iPhone will download messages from a Yahoo webmail account.

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

alain — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:55:28 -0000

upgrade to Yahoo! plus mail ($20/year) and then set up a POP3 account and download everything to your Outlook or preferred email desktop client. Then back it all up to a portable drive. Your other option is to install IzyMail or YPOPS!: http://email.about.com/od/o...

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

mariva — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:40:03 -0000

Excellent idea. Any tips on doing this for Yahoo mail?

Re: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

logicalextremes — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:18:47 -0000

Good time to backup your user-created content from all of your services [and, put in place a system for keping it regularly backed up]. Some services are great and will export nice open formats. For others, the best you can do may be to save complete HTML pages.