[GR-Jug] MailMan vs Yahoo Group

[Benjamin Flanders]

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On 4/24/06, Carl Erickson <carl at atomicobject.com> wrote:
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> Is there a local Ruby group?
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> Carl
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> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> Oh, and Dave graduated from Calvin last year, and is working
> >> locally. 8^)
> >>
> >> $0.02,
> >>
> >> -Joel.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>>
> >>> 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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> >> -Joel.
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Prof. Joel Adams
> >> CS Dept, Calvin College
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