Re: Yahoo Groups to be made useless.

On 10/16/19 3:52 AM, 'Dave Wade' [email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
> Personally, at this point I expect things to fragment. I don't know if 
> anyone who is active has moderator privileges and can see the membership 
> list?
> 
> I suspect even if they could its full of old and bouncing members, so I 
> don't believe we can migrate the members.

You can't blindly subscribe the old addresses to a new mailing list. 
But you can send them an invitation for them to opt-in and subscribe to 
the new mailing list.

> The e-mail part will continue to function for now, but there are no 
> moderators we can't add new members (all groups become private).

I find the no moderators thing a bit surprising.

I also expect that there is a way to regain control through some Yahoo 
process.  It will likely take time and will likely be annoying as all 
get out.  But I expect that there is a process.

I would expect similar for the old websites too.

> We will possibly see rival lists set up at google groups, groups.io , 
> http://www.classiccmp.org, and some ones private server.  Note sure what 
> will happen to the files. At present groups.io is the only place they 
> can be stored with a group...

Why can't the files be stored on a website at the same (sub)domain as 
the mailing list (at it's future home)?



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Grant. . . .
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