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Thank you, Mark and Glenn

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-10-18 22:09

As many of you will have read, Yahoo Groups is closing down most of its functionality - deleting all group archives and stored files within a few days and completely ending all functions, as far as I can tell, apart from what amounts to a real-time listserve allowing members to continue sending and replying to group messages over email, but with no archival service for future traffic. The three groups I am a member of are in discussions (ranging from mildly frantic through panicked) about how to retrieve their archives and where to continue their activity though other services.

We owe a great debt to Mark and Glenn because they have kept this and a number of other BBoards and listserves on our own servers, independent of Yahoo Groups or Facebook or any other global service.

I have very little idea of the work and time it actually takes to keep woodwind.org up and running, but those efforts are why we aren't now casting about for a way to preserve our history. We might all think about Yahoo Groups when Mark starts the next fund drive to help maintain this service.

Thank you, Mark and Glenn.

Karl

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