Hi,

At October 18, 2019, 8:33 AM, Mark Rotteveel mark@... [Firebird-general] wrote:

> On 2019-10-18 13:29, Daniel Rail daniel@... [Firebird-general]
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At October 17, 2019, 3:37 PM, 'Leyne, Sean' Sean@...
>> [Firebird-general] wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.

We'll have to wait and see what it really means, there are private
groups that I can go into and search in the conversations, but not
able to post messages without being a member. And, if I perform a
search through Google or Bing, the Yahoo Groups messages don't show up
anymore. I also noticed that the message history and digest will be
removed. I'm assuming the message digest is the daily digest delivery
format. The message history is not much of a loss, since it is
possible to search the conversations.

Also, the communication will have to be done via an e-mail client,
since it "looks" like that the capability via the website will be
removed.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior Software Engineer
ACCRA Solutions Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)