[self-interest] another list migration?

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Fri Oct 25 06:41:20 UTC 2019


Hi

> On 25.10.2019, at 08:01, Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com [self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jecel
> 
> You are right. Our time on Yahoo is clearly limited and we should move somewhere now before we are booted off.
> 
> We need to keep an archive of the messages from this period. This is very important! Ideally I’d like to merge them with your old archive and put them in a single searchable place.
> I think Yahoo is deleting our archive on December 14.
> Do you know how to download a copy or do we need to spider it?
> 
> We also need to work out where to go.
> 
> I’m happy myself to move to a new mailing list but I understand that is pretty old school for open source projects now.
> 
> I’d def vote against using facebook or similar where we are tied in.
> 
> I was given a link to https://groups.io which looks a potential home but I haven’t investigated in full.
> 
> In the past I have run my own mail server, but Gmail’s spam filters etc make that a no-go nowadays.

Maybe we can ask the squeak community? They (that is,  mostly I) run their own mailing list infra:
	http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/

Best regards
	-Tobias

> 
> 
>> On 25 Oct 2019, at 12:14 pm, 'Jecel Assumpcao Jr.' jecel at merlintec.com [self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups..com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yahoo is eliminating nearly all functionality from groups. We only use
>> it for the mailing list and that should continue for a little while, but
>> it is just a matter of time before they kill that as well.
>> 
>> The list started on a server at Stanford and them smoothly moved to a
>> machine at Sun. But then it was simply killed a few years after the
>> project was offcially over. I saved an archive of the old messages at
>> 
>> http://www.merlintec.com/old-self-interest/maillist.html
>> 
>> After waiting to see if anything would happen, I decided to use the new
>> Egroups service to create a new mailing list. But there was no way to
>> let the people from the old list know about it, so I spammed all the
>> email addresses in that archive hoping people would forgive me as having
>> a good cause. After that the Egroups company got bought by Yahoo so we
>> have
>> 
>> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/self-interest/info
>> 
>> We have 496 members and 3646 messages. If we are forced to migrate
>> again, I would suggest doing so while we can still announce here where
>> to go.
>> 
>> -- Jecel
>> 
> 
> 
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