ROS mailing lists face closure

ROL Select list abandons sinking SmartGroups ship

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True that Smartgroups will close but was it necessary to set out such a negative title for this posting? OK, the title attracts readers but I hope that there is no need for this kind of negative title to attract readers... And the title is probably not true anyhow since quite a few RISC OS mailing lists moved to other techniques quite some time ago and the odd one did so recently so that it is to be expected that all active ones will move anyhow so none faces closure I'd say (except perhaps for the odd dead one but that then makes no difference anyhow...) hzn on 5/11/06 5:06PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Losing the archives is perhaps more annoying than having to move the list. Though HTLM format archives of some lists are available for recursive wget - grab them while you can. caliston2 on 6/11/06 1:32PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I never really understood why these mailing lists weren't just hosted on companies own servers, rather than relying on outside services. moss on 6/11/06 5:32PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

moss: ease of setup, cost, not all projects that have mailing lists have their own hosting and those that do don't always have full shell access and the ability to install whatever mailing list software they want. The usual reasons flibble on 6/11/06 6:38PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Well, I run two mailing lists on my own hosting. And I'm utterly useless, so it can't be that hard Seriously, I can see it might be a problem for some people. But for companies like ROL, it's a bit silly. moss on 6/11/06 11:13PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I received my email inviting me back and I'm now on the smartgroups mailing list (reading it on my Iyonix). markee174 on 10/11/06 4:55PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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