The OGD sprung from the Orchid List Digest, a LISTSERV by Willis Dair on the Santa Clara University computers. I subscribe to other large LISTSERVs with many members which are also operated through college/university computers and wonder if there may not be a person on this list with access to their university's LISTSERV capabilities... (for free).
Granted I should keep my mouth shut about things I don't understand, like whether this would be against a university's rules or challenge Kenneth's standing as list owner. But its an idea. But to answer the questions, yes I like the OGD, yes I like the email format. I looked at the freelist.org website and that's about all I know about that, *G*. Thanks for everything you do, Kenneth. K Barrett N Calif, USA >Hello all, > > >Over the past couple of months (and I'm sure it has been "years" to >some) I have received more and more complaints of no digests being >delivered although the people in question were members. >Some of these complaints were easy to fix and involved local spam >filters ;-) , other problems were much more complicated as the >mailserver used to distribute the OGD was blacklisted for spamming... >add to that a host that does not react quickly and you can imagine the >frustration on both subscriber and listowners end. > > >I feel now that the time has come to make some changes and being on >the lookout for a new host I fear that I will have to make _drastic_ >changes. > >Many hosts nowadays put a limit on the number of e-mail messages being >sent out and so far the common figure seems to be 200/hour ! >Yes, a mere 200 mail messages per hour... I might seem a lot to some >but the list officially has some 1500 addresses subscribed, so that >means a delay of 7 hours (!) to get the digest out to the last person. >In the past, when the discussions were still lively and we had lots of >participants, we sometimes sent out 3-4 digest per day ! > >At this moment I have not found a solution whereby list management >would remain linked to the domain as I don't have the time, knowledge >nor the money to take up dedicated server hosting. >I have considered external hosting like coollist, googlegroups and >yahoogroups but have discarded them because they add advertising and >some of these actually require you to open an account with them... > >I am right now looking into freelists (freelists.org) and this seems good. > >Does anybody else have suggestions about the future of the OGD ? >Does anybody have experience using freelists ? >Do you still like the OGD to be email based ? >Should I have dropped the "to be email based" in the previous question ? >;-) > > >kind regards, > >Kenneth >OGD listowner. _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
