Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)

This is a Windows app that will download a group archive, but I don't know
if it works for restricted groups (also I don't have Windows):

http://www.personalgroupware.com/


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 9:59 AM 'Rodney Somerstein' [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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.
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> -Rodney
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> 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:
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> 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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