Re: Yahoo Groups going away (That means Spielfrieks)

"Anye Shafer [email protected] [spielfrieks]" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:23:33 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.games.spielfrieks
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Yahoo disallows that and for good reason.  It is uncool to have a private group go public in case any comments were made with expectation of privacy (not likely an issue for our use case but for discussion groups in general, imagine if a private group where abuse victims discussed their issues suddenly were made public... bad news there.)

Thanks,
Anye

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 3:23 PM, Larry Chong [email protected] [spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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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? 
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>> 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
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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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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).
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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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