Not to be recommended IMHO. In any case one year's Premium
payment is hardly going to break the bank.
Chris
Yes it would in our case. We¡¯re club with no budget. Started
with OneList, transitioned to YahooGroups!, both were free.
BobS.
Note that Mark Fletcher, the creator of groups.io, is also the original creator of onelist some 20+ years ago. The concept of making money from the site is at the heart of what wrested control from Mark and, arguably, has brought Yahoo Groups to what it is today. Maintaining some control for the creator and the users, who provide that content, is one of the important things that groups.io is adamant about. That means that those users who consume a lot of resources pay something up front.
I believe that saying a club has no budget is a straw man. There are many groups with anonymous benefactors or donors, and many others who can readily find donors. When the two groups that I made Premium found out there was a cost, I had more than enough spontaneous offers to pay for several years at once for both groups. I opted to cover the expense myself for now, using the monthly billing option, but I understand some owners may not be able to do that. There are a great many things in life that go unhad, simply for the lack of asking.
If there are truly absolutely no funds available, it's still relatively simple to transfer a group manually. However the cost for Premium for a year is much, much less than the labor of moving a group manually.
Dano
D R Stinson