Cons of a yahoo/fb move

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The biggest disadvantage of moving to yahoo/fb is the loss of the list
archive; a usefully searchable corpus/body of knowledge and history for
the game and its players, which is portable and replicable.

Yahoo group search is (by their own admission) abysmal and does not provide
compact results

Facebook fails on every useful criteria.

The bells and whistles fb and yahoo bundle in are like the MS works compared
to third party photo,file and mini wiki services available now. They're hooks
designed to lock data, users and importantly.. messages in.

Google groups does provide a limited method to subscribe external list
archives.

I endorse and am confident Roger can decide,locate, house and administer a
lasting and durable list
> On 23/06/2011 3:00 PM, <gzg-d-request@firedrake.org> wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Bob Blanchett <bob.blanchett@gmail.com>wrote:
> The bells and whistles fb and yahoo bundle in are like the MS works
They're
> hooks designed to lock data, users and importantly.. messages in.

 Yahoo! Groups does archive messages- albeit not very well.

> Google groups does provide a limited method to subscribe external list

I miss Usenet particularly because of its archiving; Google Groups created by
users do not propagate to Usenet, unfortunately.