Global Affairs - at Yahoo Groups and MSN Global Affairs used to be a Yahoo club and possibly the most active forum on international politics on the net. A short while ago, Yahoo decided to convert all its clubs into groups, offering new extended features, but also creating some new problems. Specifically, more than 120000 of our almost 150000 messages have already been lost and it seems that old messages are disappearing when new ones are posted. Quite possibly, this is an indication for a storage limit by Yahoo, but so far we have not yet received any reply regarding our questions. So we, the founders, are weighing our options. One possible alternative would be moving the whole club to MSN - we already have established a highly active presence there. If you are one of the members at our Yahoo site, why not look at the new version which is significantly more stable, allows for a better organisation of messages and even formatting of the individual posts? On the other hand, if you arrived here from the MSN-site: how about visiting the old club? Still, most of our members are there, all in all there are well above 2000 of us! And, after checking out both sites: please let us know which setup you prefer! The founders |