<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jecel<div class="">You are right. Our time on Yahoo is clearly limited and we should move somewhere now before we are booted off.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class="">I think Yahoo is deleting our archive on December 14.</div><div class="">Do you know how to download a copy or do we need to spider it?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We also need to work out where to go.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m happy myself to move to a new mailing list but I understand that is pretty old school for open source projects now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d def vote against using facebook or similar where we are tied in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was given a link to <a href="https://groups.io" class="">https://groups.io</a> which looks a potential home but I haven’t investigated in full.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the past I have run my own mail server, but Gmail’s spam filters etc make that a no-go nowadays.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers Russell</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Oct 2019, at 12:14 pm, 'Jecel Assumpcao Jr.' <a href="mailto:jecel@merlintec.com" class="">jecel@merlintec.com</a> [self-interest] <<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com" class="">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; position: relative;" class=""><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;" class=""><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Yahoo is eliminating nearly all functionality from groups. We only use<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">it for the mailing list and that should continue for a little while, but<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">it is just a matter of time before they kill that as well.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">The list started on a server at Stanford and them smoothly moved to a<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">machine at Sun. But then it was simply killed a few years after the<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">project was offcially over. I saved an archive of the old messages at<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><a href="http://www.merlintec.com/old-self-interest/maillist.html" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;" class="">http://www.merlintec.com/old-self-interest/maillist.html</a><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">After waiting to see if anything would happen, I decided to use the new<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">Egroups service to create a new mailing list. But there was no way to<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">let the people from the old list know about it, so I spammed all the<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">email addresses in that archive hoping people would forgive me as having<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">a good cause. After that the Egroups company got bought by Yahoo so we<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">have<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/self-interest/info" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;" class="">https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/self-interest/info</a><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">We have 496 members and 3646 messages. If we are forced to migrate<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">again, I would suggest doing so while we can still announce here where<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">to go.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class="">-- Jecel<br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></p></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 0px;" class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>