There are plenty of free forum packages that Rob can install on the harryproa.com host. That puts Rob in charge of what happens with the messages/data.

While I see the attraction of handing the group over to some other service, IMHO, that always ends up like yahoo groups are now. A problem with your data and group that you cannot control or fix.

The costs for hosting a forum are some (small) money, but mostly they are time from people, generally domain interested volunteers.

The reason why these groups are offered free in many places is because the costs are very small, and mostly stay the same as you scale.

On June 20, 2018 7:42:54 AM UTC, "jrwells2007@googlemail.com [harryproa]" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
|This is a comment about Groups.io from the fboats site - looks good but
|looks vulnerable at this stage in its development. Maybe picking up
|enough Yahoo transfers will make it a larger less vulnerable company.
| "Group.IO PROS:
|I own/moderate several Yahoo groups and I have been testing groups.io
|http://groups.io/. I built a small test group recently. I bought a
|paid subscription to get a small gtroup which is presently waiting in
|the queue for transfer, in order to test the process. I also have been
|running a free a forum and I am testing the backup/export capabilities.
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|Based on my testing, I can confirm that GROUPS.IO http://groups.io/ can
|accomodate files and photos, both inline and as attachments. All can
|be backed-up in their native file formats. Messages can be archived in
|mbox format.
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|So far, I like what's been happening but I am still waiting for the
|transfer of the one group, so the jury is still out.
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| Group.IO CONS
|Groups.io is a one man show, literally. The support community consists
|of one company owner and two volunteers. While I have found the
|support team to be very responsive, and the product robust, the risk of
|them going offline is great. There is not a stand-alone version of the
|software. "
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