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

[Tom Henderson]

There already IS an ipg-slack running. I don't go there. I'm on too many 
slacks already and have the contempt bred of familiarity.

The groups.io still has mailing list features if you want them. It's 
still free, although the $220/yr would be fine. It's stupid simple to 
administrate. It's an easy analog to Yahoo! Groups.

If I can get an export of the names, I can import them in about 30sec. 
Then it starts to work. After the pre-seeding, have a good time. 20GB 
limit, so don't attach hi-res images of your cats.

Tom


On 12/15/19 10:51 AM, jack wallen via Ipg-smz wrote:
> I'm with Christine. I've been using Slack for a number of communities 
> and it couldn't be easier. On top of which, you can integrate apps and 
> other bits to make it even more productive and efficient.
>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 9:40 am, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz 
> <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org> *Cc:*
>>     jack wallen <jack.wallen at gmail.com
>>     <mailto: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>
>>     <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* Distinguished Lecturer, CBS
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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>
>>     <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 ExtremeLabs,
>>     Inc. +1 317 250 4646 Twitter: @extremelabs Skype: extremelabsinc
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