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

[Lynn Greiner]

I like email too. Second choice would be a BBS/forum. I don't think Slack et al would work for this merry crew. Cisco Webex Teams is free, but would suffer from the same problems as Slack. 

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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 4:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] We need an alternative to our existing lists

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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