Please no. Although I’m on Facebook (and on the groups you mention), this is a horrible solution imho: - Presentation of message threads is horrible. - No decent archive search. - ... - Some people despise Facebook and all that it stands for. And I respect that. Ben > On 18 Oct 2019, at 16:19, Tony McAdam swamp.gigs@googlemail.com [PolySix] <PolySix@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > This Facebook Korg Polysix, Mono/Poly & Poly-61 Group has a files section etc. currently under 600 members. It's a user group but repairs questions get asked and I'm sure they'd be happy with new members. https://www.facebook.com/groups/159498841307876/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/159498841307876/> > > This Vintage Synth Repair And Mods group has 10k members with some brilliant techs, workarounds etc for all things synth - Vintage Synth Repair And Mods - https://www.facebook.com/groups/vintagesynthrepair/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/vintagesynthrepair/> > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 3:08 PM Florian Anwander fanwander@mnet-online.de <mailto:fanwander@mnet-online.de> [PolySix] <PolySix@yahoogroups.com <mailto:PolySix@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: > Hello, > > I am the admin of the Korg MonoPoly group. I am faced with the same > problem like Ben with the Polysix group. > > I checked the amount of messages and found that it never was really much! > See http://www.florian-anwander.de/yahoo/monopolyraw/2/calendar.html <http://www.florian-anwander.de/yahoo/monopolyraw/2/calendar.html> > The Korg Polysix group has a little bit more traffice, but but still in > the range of two or thre messages a day (in average). > The Korg Trident group had a short life in 2008 and 2009. > There is no group for the MS-Series. > > Now I ask myself whether it makes sense to create a group on group.io <http://group.io/> > for every analog Korg synth.... Wouldn't it make more sense to create a > new group on group.io <http://group.io/> which is about all analog Korg instruments. This > would be 700, 770, 800DV, polysix, poly61, poly800, DW-6000, DW8000 > monopoly, trident, MS 10,20,50 VC-10 and SQ1, plus some string machines > and the old drum machines. > > What do you think about it? > > > Kind regards > Florian > > PS: I tested some bash-scripting on my websever which created a very > basic archive of the Korg-Monopoly-group. It contains only the messages > and has only a very basic index-list. > See http://www.florian-anwander.de/yahoo/monopolyraw/2/ <http://www.florian-anwander.de/yahoo/monopolyraw/2/> > It is still in an very basic and experimental state, but in general it > worked > > I could do the same for the Polysix-Group. > > > > > -- > http://www.florian-anwander.de <http://www.florian-anwander.de/> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo Groups Links > > > > > >
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Re: [PolySix] Yahoo Groups shutting down, Polysix group will move.
2019-10-18 by Ben Stuyts
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