Having suffered from the spam block issue, I'm in favor of the proposed move. I would hope however, that members would be conservative about including photos in consideration of those for whom high speed internet isn't available. Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA Writing from Rome, where the wifi is nice and fast Sent from my iPad > On Apr 19, 2017, at 1:26 PM, David Pilling <david@davidpilling.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the last week Ibiblio (our host) has changed the addresses attached to messages. If you have set up folder routing your messages may now be appearing somewhere other than their usual place. > > There has been some internal chat about moving the list to Google groups. > > The plus side is the possibility of including photos, retaining an email interface and avoiding the spam blocks [1] which are becoming more frequent. > > If anyone thinks a move to Google groups is a bad idea, let me know. > > > > [1] > Service providers (e.g. AOL, Earthlink, Comcast) will often block all posts from the Ibiblio mail list machine - I then have to fill in forms and beg them to remove the block. > > > -- > David Pilling > http://www.davidpilling.com/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/