?

Maybe there's only 100 or so of us who are really interested anymore. Not that this means we should break up the group. I belong to some groups with about a dozen people in them.

As several have said, the change to is painless and it's free. I'm on several groups that have already made the transition.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Cecil Bayona cecil.bayona@... [softrock40] <softrock40@...> wrote:

?

Bogus? Well a month back we had the discussion on the list and hardly
anyone participated either, actually way less than 92 responded in any
way so the survey had a lot more responses.

So in your opinion is a not bogus way to discuss this issue?

On 7/22/2017 11:59 AM, W2xj w2xj@... [softrock40] wrote:
> Bogus because you have to log into Yahoo to vote. Most of us dont do
> that. We just take the plain text emails.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 22, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Cecil Bayona cecil.bayona@...
> cecil.bayona@...> [softrock40]
> <softrock40@... softrock40@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
>
>> It's been over a month which I think is long enough to get people to
>> vote on the issue, the results are;
>>
>> 60 votes or 60% to move to <>

>>
>> 16 votes or 16% to stay until something happens
>>
>> 12 votes or 13% to let the moderators decide
>>
>> 2 votes or 2% not interested in the subject
>>
>> 2 votes or 2% to delete the group.
>>
>> Not a very decisive size group voted but I was expecting that as most
>> people just read the messages and are not active.
>>
>> A total of 92 votes of the members that cared one way or the other.
>>
>> One thing to keep in mind the move requires no action on the part of the
>> members it's all done by groups .io, they would move the memberaccount,
>> files, photos, and messages, all I have to do is send them an email to
>> go ahead as everything is already setup.
>>
>> In the meantime as a safety measure I bought some software and I have a
>> complete local backup of the groups files, photos, and all messages in
>> case of a nuclear meltdown at Verizon/AOL the new owners of Yahoo
>> groups. Right now there is no mechanism to use that backup to restore
>> the user data somewhere else but the software can generate a MySQL
>> database so software could be written to do a restore somewhere else,
>> that is why I spent some money to have a backup of the groups data.
>>
>> So what do we do next?
>>
>> --
>> Cecil - k5nwa
>>
>

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Cecil - k5nwa

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