Bob, I’m pleased you specifically intend that, because the word ‘database’ means different things to different people :-) David 1/2d

Bob is right, but sadly that ship has sailed. Which means Frank’s measured response is necessarily where we’re at. David 1/2d

Roderick, you can evade the transfer price by creating a free Basic group and doing the work yourself. Personal Groupware Offline by Wilson Logan will archive your pub group (as best it can with Yahoo

Frank, Maybe it’s time change the Home Page and Posting Status of the old Yahoo Group? At the moment all 9 800 messages are still visible, but by mid-December they’ll be gone. David 1/2d

Greg, 40 years ago I put a million pounds worth of Computer Aided Design into the Traction & Rolling Stock Division of the British Railways Board.Anticipating your email even back then, I insisted tha

Bum! I’ve downloaded it anyway, and will see if I can find a discarded laptop in my kids’ sty. Another Warning: While the compressed file is only 254Mb, it unzips to a total of 1.21Gb. David 1/2d

Frank, I’d much rather have a printed copy - indeed I used to get them - but the Postage persuaded me otherwise . . . While I’m writing, Frank, what are the changes in the second edition of Rails to R

Thank, John - got it now. Cracking good read, as ever :-) David

John, is there a link if we are members, please? David

Named after a specific Act of Parliament, designed to put finance service deals on a level playing field.Not always. The virtual scrapping of Sunday, the rise of 24/7 anking, and the creeping addition

Too many TLAs in this business :-) David 1/2d Fellow of the PWI (Three Letter Acronym Permanent Way Institution)

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.

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 of

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

Yes, it’s a really good bookshop! I buy from them at exhibitions from time to time. I last visited the actual shop some 30 years ago, asking for narrow gauge books. The Volunteer said, “I think you’d

Although John wrote: . . . this time, like Bruce, I’ve not been able to find the link either. David

It’s been corrected to 4’ 6” Frank, which is the old Scotch gauge and very plausible for the period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_ft_6_in_gauge_railway David 1/2d

Philip, the screen dump of what I see when I visit the Group is at http://tinyurl.com/y96u8f38 (and attached to this email, below). It shows Group content menu down the left, Discussion in the middle

Bob, A Facebook Group provides on the left a Menu comprising: - Discussion - Events - Members - Videos - Photos - Files then Search On the right there’s a blather of Ads - unless you 'fix ‘em good' wi

John, Adblock and Adblock Plus are also available for other browsers too. But are they ethical? I think so. Although it’s often said we should accept ads because they "pay for the service", the underl