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

[Lynn Greiner]

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 <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of jack wallen via
Ipg-smz
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 9:49 AM
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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
<ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto: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we're running old, somewhat out of date plugins.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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ExtremeLabs, Inc.
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Skype: extremelabsinc


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