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Yesterday when Mark added the sub-transfer statuses my group was at step 3, and 33rd in the queue. At some point this afternoon I checked and we were 32nd. I just checked again and it's showing we're number 142. Can 110 people really have paid the extra $200 to Expedite their transfer just in the last couple of hours? I'm gobsmacked.
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Deborah

Probably a result of the change that Mark just announced:

Duane
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Happened to us as well.? When we signed up at $110 and was informed the transfer would be in about 7 days.? We completed our end.? Went slowly from 56 down to 52 today.? This afternoon it is now up to 177 in line.? On my billing it says it will renew at $110/year.? Will see if that gets erased, but I kept a copy of the billing and screen capture.? At $220 a year we will just build our own forum software.

Don't know if it is true but on Yahoo it is said the current owners of groups.io were the previous owners of egroups which sold out to yahoo to form yahoogroups.? That was a good sale because egroups sold to yahoo for $432 Million.? I suspect if groups.io gets pumped up over 24 months from an unknown site to a yahoo replacement , they can sell for in the range of $125-150 Million.

A solution to identity issues is to purchase your own domain name and point it to what ever forum you wish.? since you own the domain name and if you use correct domain settings they only thing the visitors will see is the domain name.? That is what we did.?

I expect there will be competitors in this market popping up in the next 12 months.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 07:02 PM, CushmanGroup wrote:

Don't know if it is true but on Yahoo it is said the current owners of groups.io were the previous owners of egroups

Actually, Mark is one of the two founders of ONElist, which was merged with egroups, which sold to Yahoo.? If you have any interest, you can read the story of ONElist at

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Parts of that story from Yahoo are kind of right, but you might want to read Mark's own account of groups.io, which has been live for just over five years now:



I don't believe he's doing this to cash out any time soon.

Bill

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 04:49 AM, Bill Burns wrote:

read Mark's own account of groups.io, which has been live for just over
five years now:

Wow!? Shows how the memory plays tricks.? My group started on ONElist in May1999 and I would have sworn blind that we were on that for at least year before it merged with eGroups, and then a year or more before the Yahoo takeover!? I'm sure time went slower back then than it does now!

I'm sad to say that the group that was actually my intoduction to ONElist doesn't seem to be making the move to Io.

Penny