<div id="geary-body" dir="auto"><div>I'm with Christine. I've been using Slack for a number of communities and it couldn't be easier. On top of which, you can integrate apps and other bits to make it even more productive and efficient.</div></div><div id="geary-quote" dir="auto"><br>On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 9:40 am, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz@netpress.org> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Funny, my experience is just the oposite. I've had nothing but trouble with Webex but Slack has been a piece of cake.
Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
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On 12/14/19 11:43 AM, Lynn Greiner via Ipg-smz wrote:
<blockquote>I find Slack a beast to use. Take a peek at Cisco Webex Teams. It’s free, and offers Slack functionality in a much nicer UI. It’s end-to-end encrypted and secure too – Cisco can’t peek.
*From:* Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>> *On Behalf Of *jack wallen via Ipg-smz
*Sent:* Saturday, December 14, 2019 9:49 AM
*To:* <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>
*Cc:* jack wallen <<a href="mailto:jack.wallen@gmail.com">jack.wallen@gmail.com</a>>
*Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] We need an alternative to our existing lists
Why not do Slack?
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 4:54 am, David Gewirtz via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>> wrote:
Well, we could self-host a WordPress site with membership and forum
software. The entire solution can be built out that way. The only
downside is a cost, monthly for good hosting and yearly for some
commercial plugins to lock things down.
The one gotcha on the site I built was that when we moved it to a
new host, some of the commercial plugins wouldn't re-register. At
the time I set it up, the cost for them wasn't too high, but they
ballooned to a total of over $500, which was too rich for me this
year, so I just moved the site and we're running old, somewhat out
of date plugins.
Also, I can't really volunteer myself to do the whole job. Post
heart surgery, I'm trying to tone down how much work I shoulder. But
I'm happy to advise.
--David
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:28 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz
<<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a> <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>> wrote:
I will also contribute shekels.
Some alternatives include group.io <<a href="http://group.io">http://group.io</a>> (am on four
ex-yahoo/refugee lists there)
Cheap hosting as in namecheap/hostgator/etc that costs about
$200 yr
that uses php-ish bbs-ish (even 2FA/MFA authenticated) hosting
(meaning
NON-email)
Or migrate totally to slack, which visually is tough for what we
do as a
mailing list.
We're geeks here. Time to crack some knuckles. Not so long ago,
David
Gewirtz pushed through the netpress.org <<a href="http://netpress.org">http://netpress.org</a>>
re-do pretty successfully.
Perhaps one of us can help you migrate the mailman version to
something
modern. I have MySQL/SQL-of-anything skills, if that's a problem. I
could be a DBA if it didn't seem to require heavy high-calibre
weapons.
Tom
On 12/13/19 3:13 PM, Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> The least-cost account is $5.95/month, so under $10
including the
>> SIM, and
>> (I just called and asked) you get up to five mailing lists
for that
>> price.
>> (This account could probably also handle an IPG site, either
as HTML
>> or WordPress, even.)
>
> So that's like $100/year. I wouldn't be surprised if Pair
could be
> talked into comp'ing the account, even; I'd be happy to ask 'em.
>
> DPD
>
>
>
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