Hi Ed; Once the group change takes place, all the active members can evaluate the effects and we can come to a decision. At that point, we will either move and close this group (with warning so folks can get information they may want) or stay here. Bill owns the Google group, it has been there for at least two years. I do NOT recommend at this point that everyone drop this group and go there, we can make that choice once we see the results of the change.
In the mean time, there are tools available to make individual backups of the group information. I suggest you look into these tools NOW if the archives of various Yahoo Groups contain information that is of vale to you. The Yahoo Group Managers forum lists these tools: GroupFetch Yahoo Group downloader (Photos, Files, Attachments) + Yahoo Groups to Forum Conversion Service http://www.groupfetch.com/ o PG Offline Group Archiving Utility to download and archive all the messages in Yahoo group archive. WARNING - Read instructions carefully and use slowly to avoid having your IP blocked for excessive activity. http://www.pgoffline.com/ I have tried the free version of pgoffline and it seems to work well, although limited to three groups. I need to buy the full version to get all the groups I want to reference. I do not know if it will still work after conversion to the new format is complete. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 9/14/10, Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} <<< Admin>>> FaceHoo > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 10:13 AM > It seems to me that whether you stay > or move you'll have to learn how to make the most of a new > group format. Looking at it that way, I don't know which > will have the best features. It's a waste of time moaning > over losses we can do nothing about. Having an easy google > alternative to jump to will guarantee that the members will > be split between the two groups. If your going to strongly > recommend that people move, you'd be better of closing this > one down completely. > > > Ed Kozlowsky > Sanford, Maine > > --- On Tue, 9/14/10, Pieter Roos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Pieter Roos <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} <<< Admin>>> > FaceHoo > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 9:09 AM > > > > > > > Hi Ed; > > That is interesting, and maybe points to a hole in Google > Groups security. You have two posts from Feb. 2009. Possibly > Bill posted a single message to both this list and the > Google group, you did a "reply all" and Google simply > accepted your reply because it was tied to a legitimate > post. > > At this point I'm not sure how much impact the changes will > have on most members. Assuming you get group messages by > email, their may be no change - yet! Yahoo has made the > comment that email will not change -in this update- so who > knows what is in store in the future. I do not like the new > front page, will probably never create an "avatar" to > replace the gray smiley that appears by most messages. > > Of greater concern is that the new format makes referencing > past messages somewhat more difficult since there are no > longer messages numbers shown (currently they appear on the > search results, since that is still old format). The fact > that the old "front page" with the photo and group > description is now buried behind the "i" About link on the > left means potentially fewer people will stumble on our > group and realize what it is about, but I have no way of > knowing how many folks find us that way as opposed to > searching for us or following an external link anyway. > > I will not write further on the subject at this point. My > sense is that the change, while not "good" and certainly not > asked for, is not a full disaster for our group (it appears > it is for some others). It is still not clear to me that it > is in the best interest of the group to try to move, as > satisfying as it might be to deprive Yahoo of the "users". > > Pieter E. Roos > > --- On Tue, 9/14/10, Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]> > wrote: > <SNIP> > > I would still like to know how I posted to a google > > group I'm not a member of. > > > > Ed Kozlowsky > > Sanford, Maine > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
