Here are updates on three problems affecting significant numbers of
groups or users.

GROUP ACTIVITY LOGS AND RECENT ACTIVITY NOT UPDATING
As many moderators have probably noticed, the "Group Activity" logs in
the Management section have not been updating. The team has been working closely
with Tibco, the company behind a key piece of software that Groups relies on to
process our incredible volume of these logs, to address the issue, but the
problem is not yet solved. And while the work will continue over the weekend
(it's 7:30 pm on Friday in California as I write this), I wouldn't expect this
issue to be resolved before some time next week.

Unfortunately, the queuing system that processes these logs is also the system
that updates the "recent activity" module (on group home pages, the Groups Front
Page, and My Groups), so this module will be out of date as well until the logs
problem is resolved.

MESSAGE SEARCH
We're painfully aware that this is the bug that will not die. And while there is
some good news, it's balanced by some not as good news (caused mainly by the
logs problem):
- The Good News: Approximately 8000 groups have been migrated to the new message
search system and for these groups, message search is working correctly again
(with a couple caveats described in the Bad News below).
- The Bad News I: The new message system also relies on the same queuing system
as the logs. So messages posted since the logs began to backlog (for most groups
on the 19th) won't appear in search, even for groups on the new system.
- The Bad News II: No additional groups can be migrated until the
queuing system is fixed.
- The Bad News III: A couple (of the nine) servers the new message
search system is running on are behaving flakily. So sometimes it may be
necessary to repeat a search a couple of the time to get the right
results (though we hope to address that problem soon).

VERIZON and COMCAST DELIVERY ISSUES
We began receiving reports today that some Verizon and Comcast users are having
trouble receiving messages from Groups. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can
do to address this issues. We are sending the messages to Verizon and Comcast,
but they are either bouncing them, delaying them, or dropping them. And this
despite the fact that we have filled out (multiple times) the information that
Verizon and Comcast ask for in these situations.

At this point, the only thing that is likely to help the problem is for enough
Groups users to complain to Verizon and Comcast so that they feel compelled to
take action. And when you do complain, there are three things you can do to make
it more likely your complaint will be acted upon:
1. If there is information about your latest bounced message on your
"bounce history page", send it along with your complaint.
http: //groups.yahoo.com/ member/preferences/communication/bounce_history?
email=YOUREMAILADDRESS is the direct link to your bounce history.
(remember to replace "YOUREMAILADDRESS" with your email address).
2. If the problem is messages being delayed (rather than not delivered), send
them the full headers of your delayed message.
http://www.fraudaid.com/find_headers.htm
3. Point them to this group, which is designed for ISP Admins:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ygmailadmin/

We're sorry for the hassle and inconvenience these problems cause.

- Gordon
Yahoo! Groups

P.S. As always, if you need help from beyond Yahoo! beyond the
information in this post, your only option is to contact Customer Care:
http://tinyurl.com/contactCC
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/ownmod/forms/forms_index.html

While we try to read comments on the blog and mail to the owner address, we do
NOT take action on them. The ONLY way to get help is to contact Customer Care.