UK phone number transfers between networks are handled through a Yahoo Group

[ga-vu]

https://twitter.com/eilidhmax/status/1184610499478077440

[toomuchtodo]

This isn't so crazy. Oil traders use Yahoo Messenger [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826186

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/oil-trade...

[dTal → toomuchtodo]

I feel it's helpful in these cases to distinguish between "crazy" and "unusual". It might not be unusual; it's definitely crazy.

[hayyyyydos]

Not transfers, but rather notifying the other carriers of new number range assignments so they can condition their switches to route them. Not as bad as it sounds.

[bhhaskin]

This is a tweet about a tweet...the link should be changed to the original tweet instead of the current link.

[fxleach]

I like the tone of this paper:

"A review might consider whether it is befitting for the world's sixth largest economy to manage critical national infrastructure via a Yahoo group but we would hope that is obvious."

[peterburkimsher]

I hope they change before Yahoo Groups deletes all content in December!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269614