On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Frederick Gleason <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2014, at 00:47 33, Andy Sayler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Although that would require moving to new mailing lists atop Google, > etc... > > Interesting that you raise this, as I have been mulling over doing > precisely that. > > Any downsides to it? In general, we've been pretty happy with Google Groups. They've improved quite a bit over the previous few years after looking like the may be destined for the Google Chopping Block for a little while around 2010. Google never inserts adds into Google Group messages, even in the free version. You might see some side bar adds if your browse the list via the forum/web interface, but the mail interface is clean. And as Fred says, using the payed Google Apps version avoids ads all together. Google may very well be harvesting the message content for future add targeting, etc, but assuming some of us subscribed to this list use Gmail and knowing that this list also gets publicly archived and indexed by Google, they can already do that. As far as spam,etc goes, I don't think it's any more of a problem then any other mailing list. Assuming posting rights are limited to approved members, Fred should be able to ban any spammers with ease. And Google's spam filters are actually a lot better than anything I imagine this list uses now. It's amazing how much spam you can block when you have the ability to snoop the inbox's of about half the internet ;-). Google Grousp can falg potential spam posts and hold them for moderation before posting them to the list. The one concern I might double check would be to see how the payed Google Apps version of Google Groups interact with people outside of the Apps domain (e.g. without @paravelsystems.com email addresses). The Apps versions of Google products tend to be optimized for intra-domain privacy, at the expense of extra-domain functionality. I know there are options to allow non-domain members to participate in the payed Google Groups via email, but I'm no sure if the web/forum interface would be available to anyone outside the domain, etc. It looks like public and/or non-domain access should be supported, but that would be my one concern: https://support.google.com/a/answer/170452?hl=en.
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