[Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discussion list to Google groups

[Peter]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Leighton Pritchard <lpritc at scri.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 16/12/2009 16:56, "Hilmar Lapp" <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:
>
>> what is your solution to Google all of a sudden deciding to take
>> Google Groups down, or to make it a paid subscription service,
>> or if Google goes out of business?
>
> On 16/12/2009 19:07, "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
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>> Not that I think Google is in any danger of going under, or that Google Groups
>> will cease to exist, but they have discontinued services in the past (notebook
>> was one, and I recall others going away).
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/numpy-discussion/unlock?_done=/group/numpy-di
> scussion/
>
> That mailing list was taken down from Google Groups for 'violating terms of
> service' - why, I don't know: it's a mailing list for a specialist Python
> library.  It does illustrate though, how control can be (irrevocably) lost
> over communication via Google Groups.  Notably, the mailing list itself
> persists without interruption.

I remembered that example later - if NumPy had *switched*
that would have been a major upset to their community. As it
was, it seems people who were using the Google Groups
interface switched to using plain old email:
http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2009-October/045855.html

Peter