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

Tom Henderson thenderson at extremelabs.com
Mon Dec 16 17:41:36 UTC 2019


Our listmaster/mistress face a gruesome upgrade.

We can still do mail with groups.io. In your mailbox-style mail almost 
identical to what we have now, plus web accessibility.

Tom


On 12/16/19 12:36 PM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:
> Is the problem with the host? I think we changed hosts a while back 
> after running across a similar problem. Isn't this a platform problem?
>
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> http://fossforce.com
>
> On 12/16/19 11:47 AM, Matt Heusser via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> Agreed. I think email is our medium and we'll lose something by 
>> moving off of it.
>>
>> That said moving to a different host seems to be an increasing need.
>>
>> --heusser
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:53 AM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz 
>> <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, M. Fioretti via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>      > +1 to every single word David wrote, and more: another benefit of
>>      > email is automatically getting your own, local, complete 
>> archive of
>>      > all conversations you need to have archived. Searchable with 
>> the same
>>      > tools you use for the rest of your documents.
>>
>>     +2 to David and M. Fioretti. I think that (some of us) are losing
>>     track of
>>     the original question: finding a new mailing list provider.
>>
>>     Yes, that doesn't mean it's not a good time to consider migrating 
>> to a
>>     different technology/platform, just because we can. But nobody 
>> has said
>>     "email lists for IPG is broken."
>>
>>     Email lets me not just save locally, but file some by topic. Email
>>     lists
>>     on MY account (granted, on PAIR servers, except what I download),
>>     which I
>>     "own" (pay for use of). Etc. And we already all have and are using
>>     email software that we like.
>>
>>     DPD
>>
>>
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>>
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