[sdiy] BACK ONLINE - FUTURE

[Rick Jansen]

On 25/08/2016 12:22, Andre Majorel wrote:
> 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/
>
xs4all (https://www.xs4all.nl/) is a *very _very_ good* provider in The Netherlands, and a 
big advocate of freedom of information and privacy.
I would be very happy to host synth-diy there (I will keep my xs4all account), but I need 
to discuss with them if we can move the archives there too.
Perhaps I should have done that earlier, even.

rick
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