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Re: [PolySix] Yahoo Groups shutting down, Polysix group will move.

2019-10-18 by Ben Stuyts

Good point, thanks.

Ben

> On 18 Oct 2019, at 20:39, backshall1@bellsouth.net [PolySix] <PolySix@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> There are some groups that are big enough and busy enough (YamahaDX, korgpolyex) that would probably be better on their own.
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> From: Ben Stuyts  <>yahoo@stuyts.nl <mailto:yahoo@stuyts.nl> [PolySix]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2019 1:59 PM
> To: Yahoo PolySix group <>
> Subject: Re: [PolySix] Yahoo Groups shutting down, Polysix group will move.
>  
> Or maybe even VintageSynth…. why restrict it to Korg? Or would that be too broad and loose focus?
> 
> (The reason I’m asking of course is because I have that other list, newmellotrongroup, which is not really Korg related. :) )
> 
> Ben
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> > On 18 Oct 2019, at 19:25, Ben Stuyts <yahoo@stuyts.nl <mailto:yahoo@stuyts.nl>> wrote:
> > 
> > That is an interesting idea, Florian. VintageKorg!
> > 
> > 
> >> On 18 Oct 2019, at 15:51, 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?
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> >> 
> >> 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.
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> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> http://www.florian-anwander.de <http://www.florian-anwander.de/>
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