[sdiy] BACK ONLINE - FUTURE

[Andre Majorel]

On 2016-08-25 05:53 -0300, Alexandre Souza wrote:

> Rick, with yahoo groups and google groups, why have a
> dedicated server?

If you have your own server, you can do things like disabling
digest mode and filtering out HTML. Just that does wonders for
the readability of the list. Come to think of it, you could even
filter out top-posting... <g>

> Can't googlegroups fulfill the needs of synth-diy?

Not my first choice. I don't like Bigcorp to know what I'm
reading. Also, last time I tried, there was no way to create a
Yahoo account without giving them your mobile phone number. I
don't have one and, if I did, I wouldn't particularly want Yahoo
to know it.

If we must use a service, there are less privacy-destroying
alternatives out there. A good one is

  https://www.freelists.org/

-- 
André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/