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Re: [Digital BW] Yahoo migration?

2016-05-04 by Mark Savoia

I can chime in as co-moderator of the EpsonWideFormat group (over 6500 members).

groups.io did a great job of the transition. Many new features that Yahoo just could never get right. I recommend.

Mark
stillrivereditions.com <http://stillrivereditions.com/>

> On May 4, 2016, at 3:34 PM, 'forums@walkerblackwell.com' forums@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> EpsonWideFormat just migrated to groups.io <http://groups.io/>. The transition was quite seamless. It went live today.
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> I suggest that. The person who started groups.io <http://groups.io/> is the same person who started Yahoo groups.
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> best,
> Walker
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>> On May 4, 2016, at 3:28 PM, djon43@... <mailto:djon43@...> [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>> First, it's not a sure thing that Yahoo will abandon Groups or Mail, but that does seem possible.
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>> Google Groups may be most similar to Yahoo Groups....but I suspect that, with Google, Photos (including old ones/legacy) wouldn't be integrated the way they are with our Yahoo group...they would have to be moved/sent independently to Flickr... 
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>> In any case our admin or someone else with access should try to save current member contact list w/email to Excel or Google version of Excel.  That would enable restoring relations that might otherwise be lost.
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>> We might instead consider a blog, perhaps via Wordpress.org <http://wordpress.org/> (which might be free). 
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