[sdiy] BACK ONLINE - FUTURE

[Hugh Blemings]

Hiya,

On 25/08/2016 20:51, john slee wrote:
> On 25 August 2016 at 20:32, Rob Spencer <rob at gmsn.co.uk
> <mailto:rob at gmsn.co.uk>> wrote:
>> How about slack.com <http://slack.com>?
>>
>> Seem’s to be the flavour d’jour with most technical teams I’ve been
> working with.
>
> As someone in a technical team who uses Slack (and its decidedly
> superior competitor Flowdock) every day:
>
> *Please* let's not!
 >
 > [...]

For what it's worth I'd tend to agree with avoiding Slack and the like - 
one of the attractive points of sdiy has, I think, been the simplicity 
and ubiquity of basic old email :)

> @Roman, I'd strongly advise against inventing yet another listserv app.
> We already have Mailman and similar. IMHO Mailing lists should only be
> administered by people who deeply understand email.

*nod*

> My vote is for Google Groups, or a well-regarded, professionally-hosted
> list hosting service such as Hugh proposed. I would throw actual cash
> contributions toward the latter if required.

If folk were happy with the ozlabs.org route I should clarify that it 
wouldn't cost anything - those of us involved cover the cost between us 
for the occasional hardware updates and colocation expenses.

I'm -fairly- sure we could migrate the archives as well which would I 
think be useful.

Will just state/restate that I've no agenda here other than keeping what 
I think is one of the best technical lists on the 'net continuing in a 
happy environment - a modest contribution then to the sdiy-commons :)

Cheers,
Hugh