Looks like Yahoo Groups death is imminent/Bill Moore Inkom

> https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917710/yahoo-groups-deleting-all-content-upload-message-boards-email-communities

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 4:18 PM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
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> note from a west coast correspondent regarding Brian’s question…..
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> ” 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 ”
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> I’ve heard elsewhere that yahoogroups is fading out, will cease to exist
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> Is anyone with techie skills discussing this? because several (many?) of us are not willing to play on FB……..
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> 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….
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> where are we with this, re Brian’s question?
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> Sincere thanks,
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> Boise
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> From: “lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]” >
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 6:23:57 PM
> Subject: [IBLE] Re: Blue Jays!
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
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