Nearly there

[Peter Walker]

Hi Minutus Group,

The funding for the new forum is nearly there. At the time of writing, we have got to $296.40 out of $309 minimum needed to reactivate your archives online.

Saturday is the final day to meet the target and we are really close now.
I have rewritten the descriptions about this project to hopefully make it more understandable.

https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus..php#donate
Due to the various changes in plans, because of changing circumstances, it is obvious that there is still some confusion out there as to what is happening.
Let me explain again what the plans are:
Unfortunately, the decision to transfer the minutus Yahoo Group to groups.io was not approved before it was too late, in fact they had not even started the process when Yahoo deleted the archives on December 17, 2019. The downloadable version is now the only way of reading the past discussions. https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus..php
A groups.io subgroup was created and some messages have been posted there and an invite was sent to all members of the Yahoo Group (for technical reasons, a direct add of the members is not possible to a groups.io subgroup). However, only 84 members actually joined the group on groups.io leaving the group split between the Yahoo Group and groups.io.
Some members of the group objected to the groups.io policy to delete groups that discuss the merits of vaccinations . This led to demands to find an alternative home for Minutus without these limitations. Luckily, an alternative plan does exist that costs a bit more, but does provide full freedom of speech and your own platform.
The remaining issue is to fund this move, so the following fund-raising system has been setup. What we are trying to raise:
* $309 Needed to pay for external costs ($200 flat rate plus $1 per thousand messages) in order to insert the group archives into a phpBB forum system. Until then, archives are only available as a download for Windows computers ($8.99).
* $111 (100 Euro) yearly fee to cover the costs of the new forum system (hosting, traffic, backup service, maintenance) in order to keep the forum free of advertising. Should these costs not be met, advertising will be shown on the forum to offset these costs. That is, if only $309 is raised, then advertising will be shown on the forum to cover the running costs of the forum.
* All above charges are to be raised by group members. There is no charge for simply joining and using the new forum.
The group archives cannot be restored to the group until at least $309 has been raised. We ask you to donate to the Minutus Fund below.
* Every donation on https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus.php#paid includes a digital download of the Minutus archive for Windows.
* Donations from $50 - $90 include the Holistic Pack of archives: candidasupport, CrystalHealing-workshop, dental-chelation, Health_and_Healing, holistic-health, minutus, oxyplus, ozonetherapy, Recipes_For_Candida_Healing, SymphonicHealth
* Donations of $100 or more include the exclusive Minutus Pack of archives: AlternativeAnswers, Alternative-Medicine-Forum, Autism-Mercury, candidasupport, CrystalHealing-workshop, DENTAL, dental-chelation, drloyd, EnzymesAndAutism, frequent-dose-chelation, Health_and_Healing, holistic-health, mind-l, minutus, oxyplus, ozonetherapy, Recipes_For_Candida_Healing, Rife, SymphonicHealth, VEGAN-AND-GLUTEN-FREE
Once the funds have been raised, the group archives will be restored on a new phpBB forum, all members of the YahooGroup will be added to the forum and after some additional setup work, the forum will be open to all Minutus members and we will no longer need the YahooGroup and groups.io group as everyone will then be in one place. If funding is completed in time and all goes well, the new forum should be open for use before the end of January..
Progress on funding can be followed on the bar found here (updated daily): https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus.php#paid
There is one disadvantage to groups.io and that is their stance on banning discussions on vaccinations. We have been told that such discussions will lead to the group being deleted. While this topic is not the purpose of this group, there have been some discussions on this topic in the past and future discussions have been banned as long as the group remains on groups.io
By moving the group to a phpBB forum based system on a webserver based in Germany, it is possible to import the previous message archives and all the members, which will reunite the entire group once again in one place. Posting will only be possible online, but this is easy to get used to and it makes it much easier to find and read past discussions. It is then also possible to have several categories to better sort the discussions. Joining the forum is for members free of charge and the running costs can be met through donations or via advertising on the forum. This solution is compatible with all computers and smartphones, etc.
One major advantage is that there would be no censorship of any kind and you would be free to discuss anything you want. The disadvantages are that you have to post messages online instead of via email (most people prefer this, once they get used to it) and the moderators have a little more maintenance work to keep the forum working.
You need to raise funds to be able to proceed. You can donate below and you will receive an offline copy of your Minutus archives for Windows in return. If you can donate another $111 (100 €) to pay for server costs, then we do not need to add advertising on your forum. That would be a total of $420 to cover all costs for 2020. For 2021, etc. it would just be the 100 €.
https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus.php#donate

Regards

Peter Walker
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