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From: Tony Baldwin <ei8jk@topmail.ie>
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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:31:40 +0100
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Please do Alan, as soon as possible.
Yahoo are too focussed on money grabbing .. eg, Google Maps on WSPR.
Sorry, I know you said respond  if you DON'T want to move, but I wanted 
to comment anyway.
Tony, EI8JK


On 14/10/2018 17:22, Alan Melia wrote:
> Hello all I am considering transering the Yahoo Group  to groups.io. 
> which has none of the problems that yahoo has built into their system 
> and many radio groups have transfered, I am wondering if this move 
> would encourage those who objected to moving to Yahoo initially would 
> join us and benefit from the archive that will build there. I would 
> like to revert to the situation where we operate just one LF Group. 
> The blacksheep server is very old now and whilst it has been almost 
> miraculously reliable, this may not necessarily continue. Even so some 
> have found it difficult to join and some are unable to post.
>
> The advantage to the ''adninistrators'' would be to gain control and 
> have a server that has responsive support unlike Yahoo. Groups.io also 
> has the facility to set up sub groups  so that VLF could for instance 
> be in a subgroup, likewise wspr,  EbNaut, Opera, if required.
>> From he Yahoo group we lose the necessity of having a Yahoo email 
>> address to 
> access the web site, and the adverts that get in the way. And the 
> occasional bursts of duplicate messages and delayed posts.
>
> Please respond to me if you would NOT want to join groups.io
>
> Alan
> G3NYK
>
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