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

[jack wallen]

Why not do Slack?

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 4:54 am, David Gewirtz via Ipg-smz 
<ipg-smz at netpress.org> 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 
> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>> I will also contribute shekels.
>> 
>>  Some alternatives include group.io <http://group.io/> (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 <http://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.
>> 
>>  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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