Good morning all - this message is coming from the new LRRSA Group at groups.io The old group at Yahoo will remain in existence but I will be closing it to placement of new messages in a few days.

Hello all, This is a follow up to my message of 7 May in which I prematurely advised of the transfer of this Group from Yahoo to groups.io. The transfer of this Group is now about to start. It may

There is still sugar cane growing in the Royal Botanic Gardens, although clearly it doesn't grow fast or prolific enough to be commercially viable in Sydney. My understanding is TA Scott owned a big

Bit of rail trivia I found in that CSR book regarding a link between sugar and the suburb and station Tascott, near Gosford NSW. It was named after Thomas Alison Scott as in TA Scott, which gives

Hello all, It seems my message below was premature. You can continue sending messages to this Group, at least for the time being. The transfer process has come to a

Hello all, Could you please refrain from sending any messages on this group until I let you know it is OK to do so. As a result of the suggestions from several members I am about to start the

I am also on other groups that have made the switch and as far as I can remember all the ordinary members saw was a single message saying that they were now a member of the "new"

Hello Philip, Thanks for the suggestion Philip, but I do not need reassurance. I am a member of the IRS Group and have been closely watching their transfer as it happened. And the

> But then everyone individually has to rejoin? No, you will still be able to to log in to Groups.io using the existing e-Mail address and password that was used for Yahoo Groups. The only note of

No I have not seen it either. I am a member of two groups which switched over, without any problems for the members. Frank

I’ve never seen that on a Transfer, Kevin, perhaps because Groups.io looks and feels like ‘right’ as it it were what Yahoo Groups was meant to be.

If moving to a new group makes it easier to use, then I am all for it. Could not really get on with the old one. Cheers Denis Wasley Berri SA

And there will be a sharp spike in messages over a few weeks as everybody reports, "I'm on" "got here" "ooh ... look at this" "how does this work" "where do I find ..." "Hi Gertrude ... I see you made

The only (infinitesimally minor) thing that would be lost in a mass migration is length of membership. In older Groups some will have been members for weeks and others for years. In the new Group,

I moved across with two large groups. No rejoining is necessary. For the average memeber the transfer is seamless. Rod Hutchinson Mooroolbark Australia

While I have no problems at all with this Group, and very rarely any Yahoo issues, I’m also a Yahoo activist and aware that some countries are having massive problems. As long as we have under 1Gb

The beauty of going to groups.io is that the list owner can invite all existing members to join the new version with one simple click by them. If attachments don't transfer to the new archive, the old

But then everyone individually has to rejoin? Hunslet

Hello John, I am a moderator but I am not sure if I have the authority in Yahoo Groups to initiate the transfer process. It might need to be the person who started the Yahoo group. We can discuss this

EXCEPT for Attachments. Having said that, Yahoo had a long period of not storing attachments. David 1/2d