Facebook, Telegram and Discord have been suggested; I currently do not have accounts on any of those forums, so have no bias in that respect.
- Facebook is "too connected" and tends to attract lots of rubbish and is very hard to lock down.
- Discord seems to be for chatter that is not intended to be preserved and has security issues with respect to privacy and data, though has better message control.
- Telegram is more secure, but does not have the moderation ability like Y! or Discord, which can lead to spam issues.
An article detailing the differences:
Telegram vs Discord: Which Is Better for You (And Why)
I have been trying to find a way to archive the messages, but it appears none of the scrips work on the current Neo Y! interface.
Y! claims that it will still allow message bouncing, but just not holding of files or messages. For receiving updates (if any), we can continue using this group, but to try and preserve anything that has passed, I again question on how serious people really are. Has the vast majority moved on? How many even still receive emails???
It would be interesting to keep some of JMH's posts, but if we don't even have a web site for him, why should some wayward next-fashion Faceless-Insta-Message-Graph site do him credit?
We're just short of 30,000 messages, of which I have read every single one over the last 18 odd years.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, a long time since he joined Skunkworks in November 2001 (just 2 months after the group started!)
On Thursday, 17 October 2019, 08:24:07 pm AEDT, Grrrwolf the Wherewolf grrrwolf6d9_at_yahoo.com [SkunkworksAMA] <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I think Telegram would be a great place for a Skunkworks group.
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 3:17 AM, scrapperbd_at_yahoo.com [SkunkworksAMA]
> <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups..com> wrote:
>
> If you logged onto you Yahoo Groups today, you may have noticed a banner message notifying that as of 21st October 2019, the groups will be severely handicapped and as of 14th December 2019, all previously posted material on the group will be erased!
>
> Log on and save anything you want now, as Skunked web site is gone and by mid-December this group will effectively be removed too.
>
> https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html?impressions=true
>
> Scrapper, Black Dragon, looking into trying to save the message posts.
Received on Fri Oct 18 2019 - 02:38:29 CDT