Yahoo Gets Distructive & Deletes GeoCities

I understand Yahoo taking a commercial decision and stopping the addition of new GeoCities sites. I can understand why they should even stop the editing of existing pages. I cannot understand why they are just casually deleting the whole lot. It is history that they are getting rid of in one fell swoop. I think it's a bad precedent; other companies who are considering doing the same will now be able to pull the plug with little or no shame. Not every decision even in a business need be based on commercial value alone; there can and must be consideration for non-commercial value as well. Yahoo is a big company and they won't go under through preserving this web heritage.

Shame on them.