On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:11 PM, bass <[email protected]> wrote: > For mail, have you considered switching to say, Google Groups, so you > don't have to worry about issues like disk space? >
We have considered it in the past and it's still a possibility. The main issues are: - How many people don't have Google accounts? - How many people are resistant to getting a Google account? - Can we expect everybody to resubscribe without people falling through the cracks? - Is it possible to bulk-add the subscriber list? If so, is it ethical to do so? - Should we purge the subscriber list anyway because it probably has out-of-date cruft going back ten years? - How can we keep in touch and announce the next meeting if the migration fails or people fall through the cracks? - Are there any non-Google list services we should consider, especially any that don't practice Total Information Awareness and Ever-Creeping Marketing? - Are there any SeaPIG members who have a reliable mail server running and would like to take this on? When I've suggested Google Groups in the past, enthusiasm was mediocre and resistance was present. How do people feel about it now? It would be nice to get out of the burden of running Mailman and having it be a must-reliable whenever I upgrade the server.
