Hi Cotty, groups.io is email based … the groups.io server simply maintains the list of people to distribute the emails to and transmits the emails you send to the list, plus whatever attachments etc, you want to put in your emails. An administrator simply manages the list (which is also able to have user controls for adding and removing an address and all that), the rest of it is pretty automated and driven by the users' individual email hosts and apps.
When I login to my groups.io account, I can see all the groups I'm subscribed to, review posts to any of the groups, look for current topics in all the groups, see my activity across all the groups, etc. I normally don't login to the server very often at all: posts to any of my groups are sent to me as email and I respond to them as email replies, attaching whatever photos or links I want to distribute to the group. It's simple and easy. I helped move my "workshop reunion" group communications to it several years ago when the Yahoo groups went away… (that's the group of photographers who participated in the exhibition and photo book classes that i attended and participated in a decade ago). There have been zero complaints. > On Jan 7, 2023, at 3:01 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's also forumotion.com > > Forums are not email based and there is usually a free image server > associated with each one, or you can link to your own hosting or a > proprietary image hoster. I'll have to look at that one, mike. Forums pose a different kind of conversation than email lists, and a different cost/complexity structure in setup and management; it might also be useful and appropriate for various of my groups. Thanks! Personally, I haven't maintained a personal, "portfolio" website or web server in a decade or so. I have found sufficient utility in using Flickr.com as master image hosting web server and have found my small participation in a couple of groups there has been 100% positive. If I did want to maintain my own portfolio website again, I'd probably go with Square Space rather than writing my site by hand the way I did last time. The technology has progressed since then… ;) G > On Jan 7, 2023, at 2:31 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah! I don’t know anything about groups.io - how does it work? Is it email > based? Can one share images without having to place them on a server like > Flickr etc? Will visit and have a look. > > Cot > > >> On 7 Jan 2023, at 04:34, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If the goal of a proposed FB group is to allow modern formatted text and >> photo sharing features in PDML communications, I would suggest moving the >> PDML to a modern list server with groups.io instead. I've helped move three >> other photo groups to this service and it's been 100% successful, including >> one that started on FB and left due to the terms of service issues. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
