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Message: 7286
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 11/12/2020
Subject: Re: Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community is back!
I don't have strong views on migrating this Group to groups.io.
From my personal perspective, I don't see any particular need for it, given the existence of the jswmm.co.uk forum, but I'm not opposed to it in any way, either.
In any case, I think that:
- It is too late to migrate it anywhere. Wasn't it only possible before the Yahoo! Groups lost their online presence and became e-mail-based only?
- If anyone were to do it, it should be the Group's "owner", Dr. Andrew Broad. His opinion and possible action on this would be crucial.
On Friday, December 11, 2020, 12:10:30 PM EST, Ian Rushforth [manicminerandjetsetwilly] <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Fair enough.
From: manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Oliver Schick [manicminerandjetsetwilly] <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 11 December 2020 16:25
To: jetsetdanny@yahoo.com [manicminerandjetsetwilly] <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy] Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community is back!
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, at 1:35 PM, Ian Rushforth ian.rushforth@hotmail.co.uk [manicminerandjetsetwilly] wrote:
> I would humbly suggest that everyone who still receives these messages
> but hasn't already joined the jswmm.co.uk forum does so, and we carry
> on interacting via that fantastic resource. I don't see the need to
> set up another rival group at groups.io as it would just be a
> duplication of what jswmm.co.uk provides (except I'm not sure if
> groups.io allows sharing of files, as jswmm does?).
I understand that, but you always make a trade-off there, because forums and e-mail groups attract different people for different purposes. I won't use a forum for MM/JSW as I already use others actively, but I do enjoy hearing about MM/JSW somewhat passively from time to time. Horses for courses. There wouldn't be much duplication.
groups.io does allow attachments and you can also upload files, yes. (It's by the same guy who made egroups, which became Yahoogroups when he sold it to Yahoo!, all those years ago.)
Oliver.
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