Not much mail comes across the seaPig list, so if a move to Google
Groups makes it easier for you I would be in favor of the move.
Also Carter Rabasa from Twilio just created a new Seattle based news
website/feed on all things Seattle developer like.
He is using Github and Jekyll to create the static pages and it's a
pretty straight forward process to keep it going.
http://seattlehacks.com/
http://seattlehacks.com/submit/
Maybe it's time to consider moving away from the old website model and
moving over to this kind of an idea.
This way Mike you end not having to do all those server upgrades and
it's free as well.
-Kevin
On Apr 12, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Mike Orr wrote:
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out-of-date cruft going back ten years?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.
