T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Group will bepractically closed by yahoo in very few days

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Re: [Electric Boats] Group will bepractically closed by yahoo in very few days

Jeff / Myles, I would be happy to help with export/import if needed, (at the very least to make sure we can export the group archive so it can be accessible if/when the next platform is chosen)

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 2:41 PM 'Myles Twete' matwete@comcast.net [electricboats] <electricboats@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Jeff (and the rest of you good folks J)

I've been the main moderator here now on the Yahoo Electric Boats forum for something like 14 years now…?
I understand the situation we face.
I have 3 forums at Yahoo, 2 of which I started and one (this one) that was handed over to me.
Yes, the Groups.IO option is a sweet one---I have long been a member of one group there that migrated from Yahoo years ago. As I understand, the entire group contents can be migrated to Groups.IO, but only after paying a premium to do so----that was something like $125 but in the past week Groups.IO has supposedly bumped that up to $250 or so to transfer the data.
I am not inclined to pay that sum to migrate either of the 2 forums that I started. This forum is different, has 10x the members of ElectricBoating on Yahoo and all that. And yet, I don't see it a $250 value proposition for me to migrate even the data from this forum.

Jeff, since you started the new Electric Boats forum on Groups.IO, you could step up to that plate and make this happen (if I make you moderator of this forum). Any thoughts on this?

-Myles Twete, Portland, Or.
www.evalbum.com/492

From: electricboats@yahoogroups.com [mailto:electricboats@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 10:57 AM
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Group will bepractically closed by yahoo in very few days

I started a group on Groups.io called electric boats.

I do not think I would have the time to run it in the long term, but I thought it was best to get it done for now so that it is an option for everyone if the Yahoo Groups becomes a problem after the transition.

Jeff Butler

On Oct 25, 2019, at 2:36 PM, izxjm3ivgp7jdyh4ul6ioq62u53e352e3366oxcw@yahoo.com [electricboats] <electricboats@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I find no sign in this group, that a move to a different location (e. g. "groups.io") is considered or done.

Look at the top of this site:

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