XPost: soc.genealogy.ireland, soc.genealogy.misc, alt.genealogy   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:56:35 +0000, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 11/01/20 18:32, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> fOn Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:25:37 +0000, Ian Goddard   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> As regards the mention of groups.io the integrations they mention on   
   >>> their site conspicuously lack mention of a usenet gateway.  If they   
   >>> don't include that then moving the email lists to them would fragment   
   >>> genealogical communities which have previously been held together by the   
   >>> old gateway.   
   >>   
   >> Indeed, but the old gateway is closing anyway with the demuise of   
   >> Rootsweb.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Exactly.  So if mail list users move over to something like groups.io   
   >without a Usenet gateway the community will be fragmented between the   
   >former mail-listers and the continuing newsgroupers.   
      
   Thate what were gated -- not all of them were. And I suspect that the   
   gating hasn't been working for a while anyway.   
      
      
      
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   Keep well,   
      
   Steve Hayes   
   http://people.tribe.net/hayesstw   
      
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