Re: Number of Groups.io Members
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But for the foresight of Mark, millions of Yahoo group users would be stranded today. Big corporations have no interest other than making money. It is the great idea in the mind of a dedicated person that blossoms into something great which really helps everyone. Thanks Mark
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:26 PM Bill Burns < billb@...> wrote: On 12/9/2019 3:06 PM, Marv Waschke wrote:
> Hats off to Mark on his system architecture. Transferring all those Y!
> Groups is an accomplishment, but as a retired system architect, I am
> more impressed by the performance of in the face of a rapid
> increase in traffic. Scaling up may sometimes be easy in theory, but
> doing it in practice as well Mark has, is really incredible.
It's no coincidence that Mark was also the architect of ONElist in 1998.
This then became eGroups and was subsequently sold to Yahoo, where it
turned into Yahoo Groups.
Yahoo then kept making "improvements" until everything finally
collapsed.? And here we all are.
Mark tells the full story of how he founded Groups.io:
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Bill
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