[GR-Jug] MailMan vs Yahoo Group

[Benjamin Flanders]

Is there another service that competes with Yahoo Groups that we could
use?  The Ruby group uses meetup.  This costs, I think around $40 a
year.

If we are thinking about using all the services that Yahoo groups have
to offer,  Online file storage, image storage, calander, then Google
Groups is not a good replacement because it is just a newgroup
service.

Any suggestions?

On 4/21/06, Joel Adams <adams at calvin.edu> wrote:
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> Part of the motivation for leaving yahoo was that yahoo changed their
> privacy policy and starting giving out e-mail addresses to their "partners".
> Members of the group then began getting lots of spam. The intent was to
> gradually shift from yahoo to the gr-jug server.
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> Oh, and Dave graduated from Calvin last year, and is working locally. 8^)
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> On Apr 21, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Vasiliy Gagin wrote:
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> ------------------------------------------ I'll vote for
> Yahoo Group, or Google group.
>  Maintenance argument is convincing.
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> On 4/21/06, Carlus Henry <carlushenry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry to bring up old stuff people, but why did we forgo Yahoo for
> MailMan?
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> > I have had a lot of experience with the Yahoo group and my personal belief
> is that the yahoo group is a better fit for our needs.  It requires little
> to no maintenance and there will be a limited number of support issues.  It
> would be one less thing that we would be responsible for.
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> > I am sure that Dave is more than capable of administering Mailman, but
> what is going to happen when he graduates and starts to make his millions.
> He is not going to have time to administer mailman between spending all of
> his money and sharing it with me....
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> > What's more, is that the yahoo group has bigger potential to grow.  We
> could post pictures, files and all of that good stuff.  It gives us a
> professional look and feel that we do not have to develop.  There are just
> so many benefits to using it, that I am not seeing any drawbacks.....
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> > Please share your thoughts on this one.
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> > Thanks
> > Carlus
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