[GR-Jug] MailMan vs Yahoo Group

[Carl Erickson]

Is there a local Ruby group?

Carl

On Apr 21, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Benjamin Flanders wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any suggestions?
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> 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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>> $0.02,
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>> -Joel.
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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.
>>>
>>> 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....
>>>
>>> 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.....
>>>
>>> Please share your thoughts on this one.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Carlus
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