why bother? the archives are already available to subscribers. just move all the new discussions onto google groups.
seajug.org moved to yahoo groups over a decade ago and it's been working fine, sans the silly ads at the bottom. meetup is the new hotness though. more people will likely discover the group and participate too. cheers, - Nimret Sandhu http://www.nimret.org On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Pat Tressel <ptres...@myuw.net> wrote: > > I think there was discussion a while back about moving the list to Google >> Groups. Is that something you'd be interested in to free up this >> responsibility? >> > > A bit of searching indicates there isn't support in Groups for importing > messages (as there is in Gmail), but it may be possible to re-mail all the > messages in the old list, in time order, to the new list. The timestamps > will be wrong, but headers could be included in the bodies (might have to > insert those). Here's a post in which someone scripted this process, in > Python ;-). Perhaps we could have a look at this during / after the > meeting? > > https://github.com/wojdyr/fityk/wiki/MigrationToGoogleGroups > > The script is not trying to spoof the sender to get the original sender in > the From address -- it uses a single sender address. Older mail servers > had no checks on sender, so one could send as any address. (E.g. telnet to > port 25 and do SMTP commands with whatever FROM one wanted. Only did this > for testing, cross my heart...really!). If we did try to set the from > address per person, we might not need to have all the senders subscribed to > the group up front, if we set the new group temporarily to allow posts from > non-members. Email servers now may attempt to validate the sender. We > could see if Google Groups rejects From addresses from the original posts. > > -- Pat >
