IMHO it was a bonkers move to Yahoo anyway. 73 petefmt
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On Sun, 14/10/18, Tony Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: LF: leaving Yahoo??
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, 14 October, 2018, 17:31
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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