[peel] Re: Yahoo Says You Can't Add New Topics after 28th October 2019. I'm checking whether it's true or not

[Stuart Brooks]

I don't know if there are any remaining monies in the fund we chip into 
for tape distribution to get us started, Rocker?

On 01/11/2019 19:59, Chris J Brady chrisjbrady@... [peel] wrote:
> On other Yahoo Groups folks chipped and paid for the first year's 
> premium for a new IO Group.
>
> Then IO staff will do a complete transfer from Yahoo to IO. They will 
> transfer every thing - although for one Yahoo Group they forgot about 
> the images.
>
> IO Groups have the same functionality as Yahoo Groups now used to 
> have, and more.
>
> All Yahoo Groups will have all content deleted on Dec 14, incl. 
> archives of messages.
>
> CJB
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, 1 November 2019, 19:45:13 GMT, Br br@... 
> [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> > That's great, thanks for doing all that work, at least the archive
> > will live on. What about mailman is not as good/reliable as groups.io?
>
> Mailman is not really the problem, but it's currently running on a cheap
> hosted server with slow CPU and disk with no redundancy, managed by a
> single person.
>
> If the disk breaks down I can probably restore the list from a backup,
> but this takes time and some of the data could be lost too.
>
> If there is enough interest I could get a faster VPS with redundant
> disks, but I may not always have time to manage it or keep it running,
> so I think groups.io will definately be a longer lasting solution.
>
> If we set up a free groups.io Peel group now, I think we can still
> upgrade to premium and import old messages later.
>
> Branko
>
> 


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