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+1 on all of these points.
On 11/17/2019 4:30 PM, Matthew Rubenstein [email protected] [KurzList]
wrote:
>
> Personally I think it's a good time to quit Yahoo Groups. This
> list does not actually have list administrators, who apparently
> disappeared years ago. Every once in a while that matters, like when a
> few accounts started spamming but no admin could remove them. Moving to
> a new group platform would solve that problem.
>
> And I personally would like to quit Yahoo anyway. It's a sham,
> owned by Verizon, which handled this transition very poorly: just
> "Yahoo is deleting your community's years of content, and we're being
> vague about the dates and exactly when anything specific is happening".
> It's a terrible platform, and Yahoo/Verizon doesn't deserve whatever
> exploitation of us it's getting from offering us the free service.
> Handling the change the way Yahoo did I fully expect it will just drop
> the list entirely at any time now, probably without warning, really
> screwing up the community.
>
> So now is a good time to do something we'd be better off doing
> anyway. Especially once people want to share files or do some other
> thing that isn't stuck in the 1990s like "Yahoo!" is. Moving now is a
> clean break.
>
> On Sun, 2019-11-17 at 17:18 -0600, Garth Hjelte [email protected]
> [KurzList] wrote:
> > At 04:25 PM 11/17/2019, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Is anyone on the case?
> > > groups.io is free, and Iâd hate for this resource just to
> > > disappear when Yahoo stops running groups December 14.
> > > Again, Iâm happy to help or set up another one myself. It just
> > > takes setting it up and getting people to sign up for it.
> > > Let me know!
> >
> > Someone on another YahooGrops list (I'm on like 20 of them) pointed
> > out that the mailing lists are NOT going away. It's just the files
> > section etc. I personally never use anything other than the mail list
> > part, and any Kurzweil file stuff can be found on other areas of the
> > Internet - true?
> >
> > Garth Hjelte
> > Sampler User
> >
>
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