From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , MB  writes:   
   >On 22/01/2020 23:57, Richard Smith wrote:   
   >> Assuming you genuinely do mean newsgroups (e.g.   
   >>soc.genealogy.britain),  rather than online forums or mailing lists,   
   >>then, no, they will not be  closed.  Ancestry have no power to close a   
   >>newsgroup.  No one company or  individual does.   
      
   Except for "closed" 'groups, which only exist on one server, like the   
   mozilla ones. But in general, yes, you are right.   
   >   
   >I did refer to ROOTSWEB mailing lists.   
   >   
   >Many have moved to other platforms and the level of activity has   
   >increased dramatically.   
      
   Though the one I take (BK-L) has just moved to another similar   
   distribution method (from rootsweb to groups.io), which to me seems   
   short-sighted, as we'll be in the same boat again at some point; I don't   
   understand why it didn't move to becoming a genuine usenet newsgroup, as   
   you say, with the resultant no-single-point-of-failure. Maybe no-one   
   involved knew how to get a new 'group created (or possibly even the   
   mechanism to do so has fossilised?).   
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