Re: [Evolution] [evolution-users] What do I do now?

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

On 25/10/22 15:42, Ralf via groups.io wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 14:43 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 25/10/22 10:18, Ralf via groups.io wrote:
> > > Temporarily we can continue to think about how to proceed at
> > >
> > > https://groups.io/g/evolution-users
> > > https://groups.io/g/gimp-users
> >
> > Just to clarify - when I set up the replacement lists at groups.io (and,
> > I have set up another one, for a different gnome product), I did not set
> > them up to be as temporary facilities.
> >
> > The lists were set up to replace the applicable gnome.org mailing lists
> > that are being shut down.
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you again for your efforts.
>
> The Evolution mailing list at Gnome has around 850 subscribers, hence
> groups.io can't be a non-transient solution for this list.

I think that we should wait and see what happens.

So far, the membership numbers for the gimp and evolution users mailing 
lists that I set up at groups.io, are 14 and 28, respectively.

When a mailing list is shut down, some go one way, and, others choose to 
go other ways.

When the  about 57,000 rootsweb,com mailing lists were shut down by 
ancestry.com, after taking over rootsweb.com, many of the list 
administrators created replacement lists at groups.io .

In the migration, some people went to the replacement groups.io lists 
that were set up to replace the rootsweb,com mailing lists, some went to 
google groups, some went other ways, and, others just gave up.

Whilst some lists had hundreds of members at rootsweb.com, the 
replacements lists at groups.io, for some of those lists, ended up 
having less than a hundred subscribers.

Some lists at rootsweb.com, were merged into consolidated lists at 
groups.io, so that, for example, one list at groups.io, that now has 
slightly less than 100 subscribers, was a merge of three or four lists, 
that had about 300-400 subscribers.

In any migration, whether it be mailing list subscribers, or wildebeest 
or kudzu or bison, losses will occur.

Some of the people on some of the gnome lists, are being quite vocal 
about all kinds of possibilities, but, seem to be doing nothing about 
any of the possibilities.

With the current membership numbers of the lists that I set up at 
groups.io, to replace the lists hosted at gnome.org, I expect that the 
number of subscribers on each, will not approach 100, as I believe that 
many people are simply giving up.

But, I will wait and see what happens.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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