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[Alleran Tan]

So yeah: http://www.businessi...for-sale-2011-9

Yahoo fired its CEO and put itself up for sale. The article talks about 'radical streamlining' and pruning of non-profitable features; the scuttlebutt is that Yahoo Groups might be on the chopping block.

If that does happen, what service would UFOP migrate to? Google Groups? Hopefully something with rich text support...

Thoughts?

[Saveron]

Google Groups does support rich text. They're the one that springs instantly to mind for me, but presumably there must be other mailing list communities out there that we could investigate.

[FltAdml. Wolf]

We've resisted leaving Yahoo! Groups mainly because we have so much history on them, and we'd be leaving behind archives that are 10+ years old in some cases.

That being said, if Groups closes, it closes and we'll have to move

We're open to suggestions, so if there are good alternatives out there, please bring them to our attention!

[Leo Handley-Page]

Drats!

I would opt for Google, but if someone can advise a better alternative, cool. Is there a way we can download the archives to save the old sims?

:-(

[Alleran Tan]

Drats!

I would opt for Google, but if someone can advise a better alternative, cool. Is there a way we can download the archives to save the old sims?

:-(

My understanding is that Mister Breeman has a sim-downloading tool he uses to count sims and soforth, which could presumably get a full copy of the sims for all ships.

[Arielle Teagan]

I thought there's just a few lists out there, I never heard of any but Yahoo and Google, but there's quite a number of them. How good they are or how available (free) I didn't have time to check, but it's not the end of the world. I was checking more into backupping lists and found that many groups alow backup of another groups and even has the setups for that - only Yahoo don't allows that, what is really not fair from them.

[FltAdml. Wolf]

My understanding is that Mister Breeman has a sim-downloading tool he uses to count sims and soforth, which could presumably get a full copy of the sims for all ships.

We have a sim archive from the tool that Kevin Breeman created, however, we have no way to display the sims.

[Arielle Teagan]

Are you sure that backup can't be used to upload those to another mailing groups?

Google groups allows backup of your mail client: http://onward.justia...w-firms-tool-3/

I saw an article for backup another mailing list to Google, but now can't find it. I'll have to go back to library where I was conducting the search and check history to find that article. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking.

[Arden_Cain]

Are you sure that backup can't be used to upload those to another mailing groups?

Google groups allows backup of your mail client: http://onward.justia...w-firms-tool-3/

I saw an article for backup another mailing list to Google, but now can't find it. I'll have to go back to library where I was conducting the search and check history to find that article. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking.

The other thing with this that would need to be investigated is: Whether google will allow an entire backup of each group?