Fairchild Club Forum

The 13,000+ message archive is safe but currently stored in a proprietary archiving package. We are acutely aware of the importance of the archive to group members, and our first priority is incorporating the group message archive into this board. There has been recent progress reported by the archi...

Since Yahoo! has apparently made good on their intention to cripple the Yahoo! group web site, and also seems to be struggling with email delivery, I am opening the board for posting by registered users effective immediately. The registration link is in the upper right corner of the home page, direc...

Since Yahoo! has apparently made good on their intention to cripple the Yahoo! group web site, and also seems to be struggling with email delivery, I am opening the board for posting by registered users effective immediately. The registration link is in the upper right corner of the home page, direc...

'Per NPR and Slate: Update, Dec. 10, 2019: Verizon is extending the deadline for users to rescue their content from Yahoo Groups—but it appears it will continue to block volunteers trying to mass-archive content from the platform. A Verizon Media spokesperson told Slate in a statement, “In response ...

'Hi All, On the 14th of December, Yahoo has stated they will remove web access to the group, but will leave email access. I interpret this to mean that  1) old content will no longer be available to members via the web (it has been archived and will be moved to our new forum) 2) communication with t...

'Hi David, I do have the archive, but the short answer is no,  The long answer is 1) the archives are not readable directly without a copy of the archiving program 2) they can be exported, but not in an easily consumed format (want an SQL database?) 3) Real Soon Now we plan to move the archives into...

Hi All, We are making progress on this forum. Brian has worked around difficulties in redirecting the old fairchildclub.org URL to this forum, by obtaining a new (but similar) domain along with a security certificate for it. The forum can now be reached at: https://board.fairchild-club.org :!: Pleas...

'Hi All, We are making progress on the new forum. Brian has worked around difficulties in redirecting the old fairchildclub.org URL to this forum by obtaining a new (but similar) domain along with a security certificate for it. The forum can now be reached at:  https://board.fairchild-club.org      ...

Thanks,Tony. I know very little about the warbirds, but definitely less is more here. I will implement your suggestion.

'As of today (11/12/2020), the Yahoo Group continues to function and all content remains online. On December 14th, Yahoo has stated that all content will be removed from the web interface. Our goal is to have the new forums up and accepting postings by that date. Whether the prior group content is a...