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

[jack wallen]

I have a Slack workspace here:

<https://join.slack.com/t/techjournoworkspace/shared_invite/enQtODYxMDQwMTA1MjgyLThlZjBiZTQ2YzAyOTZjMjMzYmVjYTVmZTNhOGRlZTI3NDdiZDNmMDQ3ZDRkOTRlZTY2MjVkZWQ3ZmI1OGE5M2I>

We could use that if anyone likes.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 9:49 am, jack wallen <jack.wallen at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> *David Gewirtz*
>> Distinguished Lecturer, CBS Interactive
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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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>>> 
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