Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

Greg,

> I'm curious what you feel the problems are with Google Groups in
> particular; I've had my own issues with Yahoo so agreed that's sketchy.

Inability to manage a closed mailing list, for one thing. That is, any
member of the Google group can decide to change the mailing list to
"open". Also the fact that *every* member of the group gets the
moderation messages, is annoying as all-get out. And several people in
our community (Magnus, for example) have reported being completely
unable to receive messages from google groups. There are other issues
as well; basically Google groups makes Majordomo look user-friendly.

I wish it didn't suck so badly, or it would be a nice solution for the
non-critical/ephemeral mailing lists task. If someone knows a
third-party list manager site which doesn't suck, please speak up.

However, as discussed at the pub, I can personally find other solutions
such as running my own mailman instance somewhere. Whether that's a
better solution for the community, I don't know. Magnus and I should
also step through each list individually that I'm talking about; there
may be less than I believe which isn't in the categories of "permanent
list" or "personal project".

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Josh Berkus
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