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On 10/16/19 1:08 PM, [email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
> It would just be better in the long term to move to another service as
> soon as possible.
Yes. Like every other Yahoo Groups mailing list. This has been going
on for YEARS.
> Having multiple administrators/owners should be a definite "must have"
> on whatever the new service might be.
It has always been a "must have", but people start these lists, feel a
little too good about "owning" them, don't share the responsibility, and
then disappear. These people are jerks, plain and simple. Such people
need to be kept out of the next iteration, or this will just happen
again. If the owner of a list disappears, ownership must be taken from
that person and given to someone else, promptly. These types of
situations tend to deteriorate quickly, and material (and communities)
are lost as a result.
> I know there's a wealth of information on here, but it's possible to
> download it all and be made available for searching purposes only.
>
> I was able to get every single post downloaded from Yahoo, and I emailed
> (smaller volumes for testing) as posts into groups.io. I was able to do
> it, but the date/timestamps of the message were based upon the
> email...so it all got a bit screwy, and I came to conclusion it wasn't
> worth the trouble. But getting every post into a text file for
> searching would be easy enough.
The groups.io system has migration tools that automatically move all
subscribers, all message archives, all files, etc etc in a few hours. I
encourage everyone who cares about it to have offline copies of this
material on THEIR OWN COMPUTERS...i.e. not "google drive" or whatever
BS, which is SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER and can go away at any time...just
like Yahoo Groups is doing now.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA