note from a west coast correspondent regarding Brian’s question…..

” Most of the listservs that I am on that were using Yahoo switched over to Groups.io. Maybe you should pass along this info to the people who run IBLE? Here is the website: [ https://groups.io/ | https://groups.io ] ”

I’ve heard elsewhere that yahoogroups is fading out, will cease to exist

Is anyone with techie skills discussing this? because several (many?) of us are not willing to play on FB……..

one thing we did c. 15 yrs ago when Audubon pulled the plug on our local Audubon chapter birding listserv… we each maintained a smallish list of email contacts for discussing birds locally, but when we went down that path we ended up with maybe ten local discussion groups – just in western Colorado – and that wasn’t serving us very well, so someone with savvy created a larger discussion group, a yahoogroup….

where are we with this, re Brian’s question?

Sincere thanks,
Larry
Boise

From: “lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 6:23:57 PM
Subject: [IBLE] Re: Blue Jays!

Wow, Patty! 4 Blue Jays at your feeder. Maybe mine joined up with yours. It was here for 3 days but haven’t seen since. Just did some evening birding & found: RB Nuthatch, one female Evening Grosbeak & a Spotted Towhee. Have around 30 DE Juncos & a few Townsend’s Solitaires.

So, when I got onto IBLE just now, I’m seeing a notice from Yahoo re: Groups. Sounds like Yahoo is decreasing the function of Groups, overall. Guess my question is, will IBLE continue or will it cease to exist?

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot