Re: Yahoo groups - dying?
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:33 am
Steve,
I was going to comment about the antiquated way of including pictures using the html codes so the modern way of just clicking on picture
and uploading your picture will be good.
Personally I find it s sometimes difficult to deal with all the emails especially when several subjects are on the go at the same time.
With the forum you can ignore a subject you know little about (means I should probably ignore then all
)
If you need a hand doing the uploading of the archive material I m more than happy to help.
[b][u]Norman Verona aka "Email Norman"[/u][/b]
11 Cherry close, Royston, S71 4LZ
Mob: 0741 9905 741
Web: www.frenchblat.com
[b]From:[/b] mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com>
[b]On Behalf Of [/b]Steve S mail@mgnuts.com [mg-tabc]
[b]Sent:[/b] 17 October 2019 16:38
[b]To:[/b] mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com
[b]Subject:[/b] Re: [mg-tabc] Re: Yahoo groups - dying?
If the group wants to migrate to the forum on our web site, the forum software can be upgraded to make it more streamlined and easy to use. Over 92,000 messages on the Yahoo group will be gone when they shut down, but fortunately I have archived the Yahoo
database and will be working on a way to make the decades of technical information available on the TABC web site. It's a long and difficult task but well worth it in the end.
If the preference is for an email group like Yahoo, Groups.io is the best solution. Our club has been using it for some time and it works like Yahoo should have. Several other groups I've told about it have reported good results as well.
- Steve Simmons, TC8975
On 10/17/2019 8:10 AM, norman verona norman@frenchblat.com [mg-tabc] wrote:
My vote would be to use the TABC forum. The site is already setup for technical documents and it s not that difficult to add pictures to the forum post. I can t think of any other section, it already has all we need (I think) [b][u]Norman Verona aka "Email Norman"[/u][/b] 11 Cherry close, Royston, S71 4LZ Mob: 0741 9905 741 Web: www.frenchblat.com [b]From:[/b] mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com [b]On Behalf Of [/b]MGTCTom@gmail.com [mg-tabc] [b]Sent:[/b] 17 October 2019 13:30 [b]To:[/b] mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [mg-tabc] Re: Yahoo groups - dying? As one of the 'backup moderators' of the group I hadn't noticed this, but need to look closer. Perhaps it is time to make the rest of the transition to the http://www.mg-tabc.org/ forum started to replace this Yahoo Groups group several years ago. Thoughts? There has been virtually no activity in the ancillary parts of this Yahoo group recently. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mg-tabc/files, where items for sale, technical info, etcetera are posted. One of the liveliest, interesting, and relevant MG forums I see regularly is the Triple M register (prewar MG Midgets, Magnas, Magnettes) http://www.triple-mregister.org/. The other active forum I see is https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/. Most postings seem to be TD and TF oriented, but it has the activity level and spirit that this Yahoo forum had many years ago. What are the opinions of the group on what our move should be?