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And more public praise for you, Eric. Thank you for maintaining the code4lib listserv throughout the years, through the good times and the flame wars, through outages and message overflows. Maintainer and moderator roles are difficult ones to perform long term, and you have diligently performed those roles. Thank you for your service :cD If folks can guarantee long term stable hosting and support for Mailman, I would be more than happy to vote for that choice. Cheers, Becky On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> 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. > > 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. > > 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? > > — > Eric Lease Morgan > Artist- And Librarian-At-Large >