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[Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

Why keep putting NAFEX into the hands of others?  Is there a reason we can
not take care of ourselves?

Makes no sense to me for NAFEX archives to be stored by anyone but NAFEX.

Unless of course they are not really that important.

Tom

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Ginda Fisher wrote:

> Another possibility is to find a university sponsor.  One with a good
> agricultural program might well be interested - sponsoring a group like
> this is dirt cheap.
>
> I agree that we ought to get off Yahoo - even when it works, it is
> awkward.
>
> (I have most posts since 22 May 2000 on my hard drive, and could
> probably extract them from Netscape if it's too hard to get them off of
> Yahoo.)
>
> Ginda
>
> Thomas Olenio wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This has been discussed before.  The simple answer is to move the
> entire
> > group and all it's archives to the NAFEX web page.
> >
> > The the list will be stable (no more OneList, Egroups, Yahoo shuffles),
> > and the archives will exist as long as NAFEX.
> >
> > But that is for the illustrious leaders of NAFEX to handle.  Could
> someone
> > pass me an ice age?
> >
> > Later,
> > Tom
> >
> > --
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Erdman, Jim wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > lostman_amiga said:
> > >
> > >
> > > >Let me back up a bit. The reason for my consern is the I moderate
> > > >another forum on Yahoo and the end of last year our mail archive as
> > > >well as some of the files and bookmarks. To this the day the file
> area
> > > >still cant be accessed.  I have sent letter after letter to yahoo to
> > > >get help. The only reply I got was a prepared help file that did not
> > > >address my conserns.  After weeks of frustration another moderator
> > > >tolf me to join the "for-egroup-moderators" forum where some of the
> > > >help staff hang out and forum questions are answered. The people
> there
> > > >have told me the Yahoo dosent answer massages any more, and that the
> > > >problems that I am facing is quit common.  Yahoo, is going through
> > > >some company problem and all support has been stopped.
> > >
> > > >"If" this is true, I do not wish this forum's archives to be erased.
> > > >I hope some one knows a way to back up the system. I am posting this
> > > >note on all my favorite forums in hopes that there may be some way
> > > >resolving this issue.
> > >
> > > This happened on another group that was archived on Yahoo groups, and
> > > someone on the group preserved the archives on their own system, on a
> web
> > > page, so that forum members could access it and search for topics.
> > > Another
> > > member provided a mirror archive also.  I don't know enough about
> > > computers
> > > to know exactly what they did (email taxes my limits.)
> > >
> > > I don't know what other possibilities there are, but apparently
> dealing
> > > with
> > > Yahoo isn't one of them.
> > >
> > > Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
> > > []
> > >
> > >
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