[Ipg-smz] We need an alternative to our existing lists

[sjvn]

On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 16:27 -0500, Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 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)

We could certainly do that. I could set up a BBS or even say a Ning-
based social network without too much trouble, but I'm very attached to
e-mail. 

What say you all? E-mail or an IPG-specific social network?
> 
> Or migrate totally to slack, which visually is tough for what we do
> as a 
> mailing list.

I really, really don't want Slack, Teams, or IRC for that matter. None
of these work for me. 
> 
> We're geeks here. Time to crack some knuckles. Not so long ago,
> David 
> Gewirtz pushed through the netpress.org 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.

It's not the skills, I have those. I'm lacking the time. I suspect most
of us are in that boat.

Steven
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