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

[Christine Hall]

Funny, my experience is just the oposite. I've had nothing but trouble 
with Webex but Slack has been a piece of cake.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 12/14/19 11:43 AM, Lynn Greiner via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 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
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Cc:* jack wallen <jack.wallen at gmail.com>
> *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
> 
> 
>     *David Gewirtz*
> 
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> 
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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
>          >
>          >
>          >
>         -- 
>         Tom Henderson
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