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I’m not a techie but perhaps ownership can turn off or switch from
“unrestricted” to semi-public or even public, in order to expedite the
archive process?
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:56 AM Doug Orleans [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> 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
> <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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>> Posted by: Rodney Somerstein <[email protected]>
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