Email list and forum
David Pilling via pbs (Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:52:09 PST)

Hi,

From my perspective, the forum came from users not from the board. We
had years of the 'list being criticized as unfit to be on the internet,
and a forum being touted as the solution.

We're not limited to the current mailman 2 software. Let me know if you
have a better solution.

My preferences:

open source, non-proprietary, free
ability for users to choose their delivery format (html or text,
pictures or not)
web-archive which we own
run under PBS domain name.

There's the 'audience' problem, we've run a low bandwidth text maillist
for many years, the current users are those who like that solution.
Changing to anything else will upset more than it will please.

I like groups.io the admin burden is much smaller. What I have against
it, is that they want a lot of money to run it under your own domain.

I can flick a switch and this will be a html 'list with pictures. But is
anyone going to be unhappy when they get 100MB of pictures in their mailbox.

When we did have pictures on the 'list, I got complaints that the size
allowed (many MB) was too small.

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David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/
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