[GR-Jug] Let's get moving....

[Dave Brondsema]

I have experience configuring and running mailman.  I'd be happy to take
care of that (and the website, too, for that matter).

I think we could set up a cron job to send out scheduled reminders to
the mailing list and do away with the yahoo group altogether.

Dave

Ken Radlick wrote:
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> The other thing that we use the Yahoo Group for is the
> calendar to store the meeting dates. They have an nice
> feature that will e-mail the notice up to two times at
> the interval that is set (currently ours go out a week
> and a day prior, I think), which is the messages that
> you asked me to fix (which I changed back to the
> generic message from the specific text that I was
> putting to show the meeting topic in the e-mail
> reminder). That is another reason we still have kept
> the yahoo group. Perhaps we could migrate that
> functionality to our webserver or use something else.
>
> That's my $0.02
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> Ken
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>>>We made the decision to ignore the Yahoo Group in
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>>favor of the mailing list,
>>using the Yahoo Group as a poster page.
>>I don't recall the exact logic we used to make that
>>decision.  I believe this
>>is a bit of it:
>>* Mailman allows us a lot more control
>>* Mailman made administration and archive searching
>>easier.
>>* It also had better user-interface.
>>* Becoming a member of Yahoo's services really hiked
>>up Spam
>>
>>Yahoo Groups were actually quite a pain to
>>administer and take part in,
>>especially for those of us who wanted to do just
>>email.
>>
>>Best to all of you.  I read, but have little to post
>>these days.  Quixtar has
>>incorporated a great deal of Java technologies,
>>though.  Alticor's core
>>network platform is primarily J2EE, but we're
>>finding a lot of the mentality
>>that we should buy as much as we can of the stack
>>(application) and then
>>contract out the programming to make it all fit
>>nicely.  I don't personally
>>believe it's worked out the way anticipated, but it
>>is what it is.
>>
>>Hope all is well with the rest of you.
>>Matt
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>>On Thursday 20 April 2006 12:56, Carlus Henry wrote:
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