[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: Possible Threat to the HPFGU Family of Lists

[Christian Stubø]

 --- frantyck <frantyck at ...> skrev: > What awful news.
> 
> I don't know if this is possible or even legal (does Yahoo have 
> rights to the messages that users post on Yahoo groups?), but would 
> it be possible to periodically backup all the messages and files 
> from each Hpfgu group offsite? 
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This is being done already - they have done this for, I think, two years.

> Are there any other options in terms of websites capable of hosting 
> groups like ours? [...] What I mean is -- Yahoo is probably the 
> biggest provider of egroup facilities anywhere on the Internet, so
> it is among the most political and visible. Can we think of 
> somewhere safer?

The one alternative I can think of for now, is topica, but I do not know a whole lot
about Topica at all.  Immediately running off to another list-service may or may not be a
good diea, but is somewhat difficult to handle when we are all of 11,000 people on the list.

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Christian Stub
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