Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 05/15/2017 07:29 AM, Matt Morgan wrote: > Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list > sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for > advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them. I'm not sure if this is

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Chip Davis wrote: > All of the Mailman lists I host/admin are provided free of charge, as a > value-add to the members of various non-profit groups. Insofar as the > actual costs of providing a discussion or announcement list are hard to > tease

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Steve Burling
On 15 May 2017, at 10:29, Matt Morgan wrote: Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them. If the nonprofit is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/15/2017 07:29 AM, Matt Morgan wrote: > > Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman > list > > sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for > > advice about it. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Chip Davis
All of the Mailman lists I host/admin are provided free of charge, as a value-add to the members of various non-profit groups. Insofar as the actual costs of providing a discussion or announcement list are hard to tease out, the best I could do would be to apportion the total costs of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] diagnosing messages missing from archives

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/11/2017 09:00 AM, Matt Morgan wrote: > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> > >> In Mailman's directory (/usr/local/mailman in your case) > >> > >> bin/show_qfiles

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Richard Shetron
What I've always done is offered special pricing, usually at least 50% off for charitable 503(c) and other 'public service' type groups. It more depended on the resources they required and the amount of hand holding. On 5/15/17 3:13 PM, Chip Davis wrote: All of the Mailman lists I host/admin

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Steve Burling wrote: > On 15 May 2017, at 10:29, Matt Morgan wrote: > > Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list >> sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for >> advice about it. If

[Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Matt Morgan
Has anybody experimented with (or succeeded with) any form of mailman list sponsorship? A nonprofit professional assocation I work for asked me for advice about it. If there are current examples I'd be curious to see them. Thanks, Matt --

Re: [Mailman-Users] diagnosing messages missing from archives

2017-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 05/15/2017 01:41 PM, Matt Morgan wrote: > > > It's a customized Slack (which I'm not familiar with in the first > place). Init scripts are in /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d/rc.mailman has a line > > PYTHON=/usr/bin/python > > and I get > > root@cool:/etc/rc.d# /usr/bin/python --version > Python

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Chip Davis
As Matt pointed out to me off-list, a lot of FOSS is provided for a profit. I live about five miles from Red Hat, and teach Linux for a living. Perhaps I should have been more specific that "I have a philosophical/ethical problem with MY charging for simply providing a FOSS service." While