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Thank you, Eric, for the heads up and your guardianships... Mailman is easy to administer, but it has a huge caveat: when a user request a password (reminder, etc.), it sends it as an email in plain text. Another tool to consider: sympa. ranti. On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Francis Kayiwa <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 3/24/16 5:29 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > >> Alas, the Code4Lib mailing list software will most likely need to be >> migrated before the end of summer, and I’m proposing a number possible >> options for the lists continued existence. >> >> I have been managing the Code4Lib mailing list since its inception about >> twelve years ago. This work has been both a privilege and an honor. The >> list itself runs on top of the venerable LISTSERV application and is hosted >> by the University of Notre Dame. The list includes about 3,500 subscribers, >> and traffic very very rarely gets over fifty messages a day. But alas, >> University support for LISTSERV is going away, and I believe the University >> wants to migrate the whole kit and caboodle to Google Groups. >> > > Muito obrigado! > > >> Personally, I don’t like the idea of Code4Lib moving to Google Groups. >> Google knows enough about me (us), and I don’t feel the need for them to >> know more. Sure, moving to Google Groups includes a large convenience >> factor, but it also means we have less control over our own computing >> environment, let alone our data. >> >> So, what do we (I) do? I see three options: >> >> 0. Let the mailing list die — Not really an option, in my opinion >> 1. Use Google Groups - Feasible, (probably) reliable, but with less >> control >> 2. Host it ourselves - More difficult, more responsibility, all but >> absolute control >> >> Again, personally, I like Option #2, and I would probably be willing to >> host the list on my one of my computers, (and after a bit of DNS trickery) >> complete with a code4lib.org domain. >> > > I shivered a bit on this... ;-) even while understanding. Are you using > "my computers" in the generic sense? This isn't one of those "under my desk > servers is it? > > >> What do y’all think? If we go with Option #2, then where might we host >> the list, who might do the work, and what software might we use? >> > > I will gladly host this Eric. While I have a mailman management experience > I am mostly indifferent to the tool we choose. I've never done an import > from Listserve(TM) so that will be an interesting one given how I *think* > it uses a proprietary format instead of mbox. > > Cheers, > ./fxk > > -- > Finagle's Fifth Law: > Always draw your curves, then plot your readings. > -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.