Many years ago, before yahoo swallowed egroups.com , I created several groups on egroups.com to promote interest in them: EV, pih, & many more.
It worked quite well because now it was easier for the public to search and find like minded users of a particular vehicle to get answers and support. However, I had lost control of some egroups to hackers which made them become nothing but a spam eye-sores (rendering them useless as a resource). While other egroups enjoyed the life i breathed into them, they voted &chose members to be system administrators of their group (a group member decision), asked and were given control of their group (i.e. Sparrow_EV to begin with...). The RAV4_EV group didn't like egroups, and created their own forum outside of egroups). Others went off and created their own groups as well. Later, after I had some medical issues that made it difficult to type. I worked with all the remaining egroups I was responsible for, to have their members vote which member(s) would take over control. That reduced my work load, and now their egroup was run by the member(s) they voted for. But egroups.com was bought out by yahoo, thus was renamed as yahoo groups. That change over was at 1st, somewhat transparent, but as was posted, it was common for bigger silicon valley companies to 'microsquish' smaller companies https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Microsquish ... http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=344 Later, Yahoo was taken over by another company, and its policies were changed to use yet another company's methods (this happened to my yahoo email account). So, while Lawrence's post was not directly relating to the evdl.org , there are evdl lurkers/members that also participate in other forums, that like me, appreciate Lawrence' 'heads-up' message that changes are happening with yahoo-groups. I'm glad the egroups I originally created are doing well and are still a benefit to their member's interests :-) For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
