Hi Mary, The "Free for 30 days" that you see is a tier of service for the over all list. CDSS is funding this community so that we can afford the premium level service.
However, individual user accounts on the site are always free. (Only the list get costs money, not the individuals.) Seth > On Aug 4, 2025, at 11:06 AM, Mary Keith Eustis <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems the free account is only for 30 days. Am I missing something? > > Keith Eustis > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2025, 11:02 AM Seth Seeger via Contra Callers > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear list members, >> >> Since the beginning, the archives for this list have been public. This was >> an effort to make information easier to search, to find, to link to, and to >> share. However, the days of free information online have changed. AI bots >> are now scraping the web for data to train on and privacy is more of an >> issue. >> >> As we move to groups.io <http://groups.io/>, Chris and I would like to make >> the archives private. The biggest reasons are member privacy and to protect >> us from AI training/scraping. This means that you’ll need a free account on >> the new site to view the archives. >> >> We feel this is a good change for our community. Since the only barrier to >> the archives would be subscribing, we think this is a reasonable trade off >> between privacy and accessibility. >> >> If you have concerns about this change, please reply! (Once we make the >> archives at groups.io <http://groups.io/> private, we cannot make them >> public again later.) >> >> Thank you, >> Seth & Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>
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