On 2019-10-18 13:29, Daniel Rail daniel@... [Firebird-general]
wrote:

> Hi,
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> At October 17, 2019, 3:37 PM, 'Leyne, Sean' Sean@...
> [Firebird-general] wrote:
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>> My reading of the announcement was that Yahoo Groups was still
>> maintaining mailing list functionality, they were simply discontinuing
>> other features.
>
>> Did I miss something?
>
> I don't think you missed anything. The changes will not affect the
> Firebird groups, since the ability to send attachments was already
> disabled, and someone had to request an invite to be part of the
> group. So, I don't think anything changes on how the Firebird groups
> operate.

As far as I can tell, the only thing that will really change for us is
that the groups will no longer be public. If that means the archive is
no longer accessible without logging in, this would impact visibility of
the project and the ability the easily things through a search engine.

Mark