Re: [OSList] oslist will end soon -- it's time to deliberate, decide and act

[Harold Shinsato]

Michael, This is just me talking - but I'm fairly certain that the board would be happy to support this for free if the community wanted it. Hopefully you might still be willing to handle some of the admin stuff - I don't know who is doing what for the current OSList serve. But I think it does take a little attention to moderate new subscribers to avoid spammers - that would be true for a Google group too. I definitely agree with you it would be best to move to another list serve style service - and to port the archives to the new system - it is best if all the archives would be in one place - not multiple. I've done searches on the archives in the past trying to get ideas about specific topics. It might get tricky for folks to have to work with two different search places. Even though Google groups are attractive - it would feel odd seeing Google ads at the bottom of all our OSList emails in the future. And using Google gives them a non-expiring license to anything you write - so you lose quite a few rights with a free Google service.     Cheers,     Harold On 12/1/10 11:53 AM, Michael Herman wrote: this sounds great, harold.  osi-us could get us into the free deal?  do you agree that best option is to migrate to another listserv host and, failing that, fall back to this option? m   -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates http://MichaelHerman.com http://RonanParkTrail.com http://ManorNeighbors.com http://ChicagoConservationCorps.org http://OpenSpaceWorld.org 312-280-7838 (mobile) On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> wrote: Hi Michael, Thanks for all your research on this. There's another option to consider. The Open Space Institute for the US has managed to start using the free and open source list serve software that runs and looks almost exactly like the current ListServe for free using a generous web hosting company that gives out web host services to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations. It takes very little administration - as the Web Hosting company provides a one click install for the "Mailman" program, which is the List Serve software which is widely used: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html And there is even a path to maintain the logs for browsing and searching in a similar way to how they are searchable and browsable now. It would take a little techie work - but I'd be happy to help with that. Even if we didn't want get help from a current 501(c)(3) organization (which would make it free) going with this kind of solution would only cost about $100 US a year.     Harold On 12/1/10 10:47 AM, Michael Herman wrote: 1. the oslist will cease to exist in its current form not later than june of next year.  2. boise state is migrating their own lists to googlegroups 3. boise state is NOT migrating any archives (so we're on our own with that) 4. our archives will be delivered to us on a single CD 5. they will be in the form of 150 monthly log files (roughly, 12 months x 12 years) 6. these monthly files can be read easily in any text editor 7. they can be read less easily when opened directly in a web browser application 8. the BEST way to keep the archives and the list going is another l-soft listserv host org 9. finding another listserv host organization is something anyone can help with... now! 10. we already have osl...@googlegroups.com set up, so that's available if/when we want to use it -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist