I have several mailing-lists under Google Groups and they have two very nice features: * protect your email address from spiders * administrators can moderate every first message from new members - this does catch all the spam using a little effort from the administrators, is not a big deal the the first message is not delivered instantly. -- /sorin http://nusunt.eu
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Michael Foord<mich...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > Alex Willmer wrote: >> >> 2009/7/17 Sorin Sbarnea <sorin.sbar...@gmail.com>: >> >>> >>> I don't want to start a flame but I think it would be a good idea to >>> move the mailing list to Google Groups. >>> >> >> > > A downside of google groups is that they suffer from substantially more > spam. The online UI is much nicer though. > > Michael >> >> python-list (the main python mailing list) appears in Groogle Groups >> because it is reflected as the comp.lang.python newsgroup. I'm not >> sure how you would request this for the europython list, but perhaps >> the same could be done. >> >> >>> >>> It's easier to read, has different subscription options and has the >>> nice feature that you can follow a thread (star function). >>> >> >> Agreed. I understand why it happened, but I wish we had more >> newsgroups and fewer web forums/mailing lists. As a fall back, if you >> subscribe to these mailing lists using a Gmail account, you get some >> of same benefits as if they were available in Google Groups. >> >> Alex >> -- >> Alex Willmer <a...@moreati.org.uk> >> http://moreati.org.uk/blog >> _______________________________________________ >> EuroPython mailing list >> EuroPython@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython >> > > > -- > http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ > > _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
