I do not have a strong opinion about
staying with Yahoo or moving to io.groups (largely
because any opinion I express will not be based on any
level of informed or educated expertise), except to say
that one Group I belong to did move from Yahoo to
io.groups, had relatively little problem in doing so,
had all the archive brought across, but still kept the
old Yahoo Group alive in case it was necessary for some
unforeseen reason. As far as I as a 'umble user not mod
am aware, that unforeseen reason has never arisen. As a
Group we have all participated in bedding it down about
two years ago, had some ups and downs in the process,
learned a LOT, and also been active participants in the
overall io.groups beta mob. And it's not a Group of
young techie hipsters used to flitting around different
media - the youngest is probably late 50s.
I cannot think of a single instance where
io.groups has fallen over in that two years, and
although I am not a mod of that particular Group, AIUI,
questions to the io.groups owner/designer/writer or
whatever he is, have been responded to generally in
minutes or at worst hours, not days or weeks.
Not casting nasturtiums at Yahoo, and
couldn't care one way or 't'other what mechanism this
Group uses (I am NOT on commission!!!) but I have
certainly been impressed with io.groups.
Dear Moderator
Please move to Groups.io. It is now
imperative to do so. Yahoo has invoked
this business of OATH just recently, and I
note that Flickr has gone to SmugMug. So
Yahoo userbility is being whittled away
piece by piece and compartmentalized.
Of the other groups that have moved to
Groups.io, one with a very big back
archive of messages going back many years
is the Industrial Railway Society, and
their moderator had very little trouble
with the move. Furthermore the archive
remains searchable right back to the
beginning.
There is little incentive to remain
with Yahoo.
Philip G Graham - Tasmania (-PGG-)
