Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)

If anyone thinks they may be able to archive the messages, it would be nice to do. I'm not sure if archive.org would accept a submission for the group or not. I would change the group to make it publicly visible, but that isn't possible to do. Once that switch was flipped (way before I was the group owner), there is no way to remove the "restricted" setting.

-Rodney

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, at 1:56 AM, Doug Orleans [email protected] [spielfrieks] wrote:
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> The Archive Team is working on archiving all public Yahoo Groups:
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> https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
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> But since spielfrieks is restricted, they won't be able to archive it! It would suck to lose 19 years of messages/files/polls/etc. I think there are ways for members of this group to archive it, but I haven't looked into it yet. Anyone?
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> --Doug
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> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 12:53 AM Rodney Somerstein [email protected] [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yahoo has announced that as of October 28, Yahoo Groups will stop 
>>  accepting new content and on December 14 will delete all content. That 
>>  means that this group will go away at that point.
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>>  Granted, not much activity occurs here these days, other than the 
>>  Meeple's Choice Awards each year. That will need to find another home of 
>>  some kind. Reddit is likely a good choice.
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>>  Moderating/owning this group for the last 10+ years has been a pleasure.. 
>>  I would like to thank everyone that has contributed over the years in 
>>  any way, especially Larry Levy for running the awards for so many years 
>>  as well as the great retrospective awards. Also, a big thanks to all of 
>>  the people who have acted as moderators or owners of this list over the 
>>  years, including, but not limited to, Erik Arneson (the list owner 
>>  before me), Mik Svellov, and Ward Batty (who helped approve new members 
>>  and posts when the group was more than one person could reasonably manage).
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>>  Discussions these days have primarily migrated to various forums, 
>>  especially BGG. I suspect that the real usefulness of this list is long 
>>  past, though it was great when active discussions happened here. Before 
>> boardgamegeek.com, spielfrieks was one of the best ways to have a good 
>>  game discussion.
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>>  To assist with the continuation of the Meeples Choice awards, I have 
>>  created a subreddit, r/spielfrieks to host discussions. It is currently 
>>  private and inaccessible. Larry, if you want that opened up, please let 
>>  me know. I grabbed it just to keep the name in case you want to continue 
>>  the awards via something named spielfrieks.
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>>  If anyone has any suggestions, thoughts, etc, please let me know. I will 
>>  be happy to open the subreddit up to everyone and post info here for 
>>  those of you who aren't familiar with Reddit. Reddit has quite a few 
>>  very active board game groups already. My thoughts are that this one 
>>  would mostly be for award discussion, but it could be used for general 
>>  discussion as well.
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