Gary
On 8/19/07, Gary Thornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Clint Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just don't use Google for domains!
I'm wondering whether you mean that Google for domains would be a
bad fit for this list, or whether you're recommending not using
Google for domains at all.
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:42pm, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
All,
I am toying with the idea of dropping Mailman for Google Groups and
would like some feedback from the group.
I wouldn't do it. A couple of other lists I've been on have switched back
away from Google Groups because of the
The Ruby group (URUG) moved from mailman to Google Groups and it was a
mostly smooth transition. I know of other lists that use Google Groups as a
front-end to ease the load on their list app instance.
You can subscribe and unsubscribe without ever having to create a Google
account if you wish,
GoogleGroups requires cookies to post and it's my opinion anything that
writes to your hard disk like cookies are evil - quite the opposite of
open source.
Actually Firefox writes to your hard disk, not cookies, so Firefox must be evil
and anti-opensource.
Well, most sites that require you
--- Clint Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/19/07, Gary Thornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Clint Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just don't use Google for domains!
I'm wondering whether you mean that Google for domains would
be a bad fit for this list, or whether you're recommending
Google Groups would be a workable solution for this list
that most of us could live with. I tend to like mailman
better, partly because of the ability to customize headers
and partly just because it's what I'm used to using, but the
differences aren't important enough to me that I'd object
I'd suggest those interested/disinterested sign up for the Google
groups list and run a bit of discussion on it to see better how it
works. IE.: find out if we can get our filters, nesting, etc. to
work with Google groups and then make a decision whether it works
well enough for us.
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:27 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
Yes, they handle things fairly nicely, but you lose a lot of
control over things like headers (there wasn't anything a sorting
rule could really be built on and
sorting by subject isn't a good idea, but please folks, don't
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:48 -0600, Lonnie Olson wrote:
Does Google Groups use standard mailing list headers? I am specifically
interested in the List-* headers. I use some of them for my personal
filtering.
nevermind, I joined and got a message. The answer is yes. The headers
are only very
On 8/20/07, Lamont Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:42pm, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
All,
I am toying with the idea of dropping Mailman for Google Groups and
would like some feedback from the group.
I wouldn't do it. A couple of other lists I've been on
The Ruby group (URUG) moved from mailman to Google Groups and it was a
mostly smooth transition. I know of other lists that use Google
Groups as a
front-end to ease the load on their list app instance.
Did they move their archives over? Does anyone know of any group that
was using
Gary Thornock wrote:
--- jtaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GoogleGroups requires cookies to post and it's my opinion
anything that writes to your hard disk like cookies are evil -
quite the opposite of open source.
Also, unless there's a way to get msgs sent directly to your
email, it also
On Aug 19, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
snip
What do you think?
I'm all for anything that makes a volunteer job easier and cheaper. I
use Google groups for a few other lists, and I like it just fine.
$google_groups++;
-- John
I'm all for anything that makes a volunteer job easier and cheaper.
I use Google groups for a few other lists, and I like it just fine.
I have a question for you since you are an active Google Groups user:
On the manage my memberships screen [1], where you specify per-list
nickname, email,
On 8/19/07, Wade Preston Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I am toying with the idea of dropping Mailman for Google Groups and
would like some feedback from the group. Mailman is a nice, old
friend that has giving years of dedicated service to the community,
but his age is showing. Sure,
Just don't use Google for domains!
I moved a few personal and family domains/emails accounts over this
weekend and have been in utter bliss. I haven't received a single
piece of Spam since the move.
I think if they actually integrated the functionality of Google
Groups it'd be a
On a side note:
On 8/19/07, Wade Preston Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
... Plus the
archives display your email address un-obsficated.
...
That's only if you forget to check the checkbox at the bottom of the
Admin page for Privacy called:
Show member addresses so they're not directly
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