That's news to me, Joel, but I have been wondering how they'll cope with the enormous sudden growth in their business, provided to them by Yahoo's actions.

I guess the answer is they'll need to buy, lease or otherwise pay for a lot more server capacity and bandwidth, which probably goes some way towards explaining a price increase.

It does appear we'll have the option of downgrading, at the end of the year, to a free account.? Failing that, the group will have been in a lifeboat for a year, giving it time to look for another host.

Personally, I'm opposed to Facebook, for reasons I won't bore you with, but partly because I'm a UK citizen.? I'm not overly fond of Google, especially since they have no intention of providing accessibility for blind or deaf people, plus I find most of what they do overblown and annoying - like when I typically spend two minutes waiting for the first Youtube page of the day to load, possibly just to watch a minute long clip.

I'm not arguing with you though - I don''t know enough about groups.io to try.? I'm just offering my own opinion.

- Andy