I agree with Bhaskar's proposal. The openhealth@yahoogroups.com list is not broken, so there is no need to "fix" it. Rather than dissipate community resources in an unnecessary technology migration task, let's concentrate instead on the governance and planning tasks needed for a cohesive re-launch of OSHCA.
[wr] - - - - - - - - On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Peter Holt Hoffman wrote: > I agree with Bhaskar for all the reasons he enumerated in his email > below (I > edited it to just the relevant portion). I would also like to take > this > opportunity to thank him for having started this group. > > -- Peter. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bhaskar, KS > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:32 AM > To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list > <Peter - snip!> > > In my role as moderator, I see myself as serving the wishes of the > free > and open source software for healthcare community. One suggestion I > would make, however, is simply to leave the list at Yahoogroups. Yes, > we can create our own list on our own server, but then we would be > responsible for things like the list below for a server that will > sit on > the Internet: > > 1. Backups. > 2. Indexing and searching. > 3. Anti-virus and spam filtering. > 4. Security, including keeping up to date with patches. > 5. Network access, bandwidth, data center operations. > > I recently had an opportunity to observe the need to respond to a > server > that was found to have the t0rn root kit installed on it, and it was > very disruptive on the lives of those who managed it. > > Yahoogroups does all of this for us, and the price is some advertising > appended to each message (and if you opt for text messages rather than > HTML messages, the advertising is at the bottom and quite innocuous). > All the group moderators have to do is to approve requests to join the > group. > > We already have several moderators from the community who are > members of > the group, and there is redundancy should I, or any of the other > moderators, have something untoward happen to us and be unable to > serve. > I am also happy to accept others who would like to volunteer to serve > the community as moderator. > <Peter - snip!> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > [wr] - - - - - - - - will ross project manager mendocino informatics 216 west perkins street, suite 206 ukiah, california 95482 usa 707.272.7255 [voice] 707.462.5015 [fax] www.minformatics.com - - - - - - - - Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
