[sdiy] BACK ONLINE - FUTURE

[Jason Proctor]

fwiw -- in my experience it's not necessary to have a Google / Yahoo
account just to use their group services, you can subscribe, post, etc, via
email.

however, due to flaws in the way Yahoo Mail does signatures, users there
may encounter incompatibilities dealing with Google services, among others.




On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:12 PM, <rsdio at audiobanshee.com> wrote:

> Synth-DIY already runs on mailman, the best mailing list software. Not
> only can you disable digest mode and filter HTML, but each individual user
> can make their own choices about such settings without affecting everyone
> else. The sysadmin has the ability to restrict options, but can also leave
> many options to the members on an individual basis.
>
> I'm opposed to Google and Yahoo because they require you to have an
> account with them in order to subscribe to a list. Although I wouldn't mind
> signing up with either of them just to get to this list, it's still a
> negative because I don't want to be checking Google mail and Yahoo mail
> every time I check my personal email.
>
> Considering the fact that mailman is so ubiquitous, and it poses no
> restrictions on who can sign up or what kind of email hosting they have, I
> don't see any reason to bow to the viral Google/Yahoo style of operations.
>
> So, thanks for running the list, Rick, and I hope you can migrate the
> existing mailman setup to a new host. Preferably, the xs4all.nl domain
> would remain the same. I was going to offer my server, which also hosts
> several mailman lists, but I can't promise the same level of sysadmin
> support as Hugh's OZLabs or XS4All or anyone else. Seems like we have
> plenty of options, so I vote for sticking with mailman regardless of where
> the server hosting lands.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2016, at 3:22 AM, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> 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/
>
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