This might sound a little ridiculous, but I started thinking of the days when I was in college back in 1993/1994 and the Internet was just starting to proliferate. We were in a transitional state moving from AOL, CompuServe, AppleLink and more over to shell accounts on Unix systems.
I remember using mailx and Elm (predecessor to Pine) for email. Having to wait for a workstation to free up so I could go in and start banging on the keyboard.
I like the idea of NNTP via shell (or whatever NNTP client one feels comfortable with and IRC for real-time chat.
It may not be practical for our needs necessary, but it sure sounds like a great nostalgic experience!
Of course when we would consider going to a discussion platform
rather than a mailinglist,
we should, in honor of our former president, setup an NNTP (usenet)
server with closed access
and a long retention time. Everyone can use their favorite
newsreader, but unfortunately
searching article bodies is as problematic as with Mailman.
So indeed a email list with archiving seems a better option. But I
would vote for a solution
that we can host ourselves instead of a "cloud service". Those may
be terminated at any
time or the terms&conditions may change. We have our own IP
space and hosting facilities
so self-hosted solutions should be no problem for us and are part of
our core business.
Rob
On 4/22/22 04:51, David Ranch via 44net
wrote:
I would vote for a migration to a groups.io email
list compared to say Discourse, MattersMost, Slack, etc. Why?
Searching the archives. No doubt, AMPR's stock Mailman's
searching functionality is/was very poor but it could be made
better. If AMPR wants to move the email lists to groups.io,
that system has some pretty decent search abilities.
--David
KI6ZHD
On 04/21/2022 06:12 PM, Rosy
Schechter - KJ7RYV via 44net wrote:
Rosy Schechter - KJ7RYV
Executive Director
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) ampr.org
On 4/21/22 6:08 PM, Damien Gardner via 44net wrote:
Yeah I'm just adding my vote for please
god, do NOT move to discourse. SAGE-AU moved to discourse a
couple of years ago, and it killed the organisation. As it
turned out, like 90% of the members REALLY like email, and had
absolutely no interest in moving their conversations to a web
message board. As much as discourse likes to say it supports
email, it really doesn't do a good job of it, and with members
cracking the shits and leaving, SAGE-AU went broke last year,
and now we don't have a peak body for IT Professionals in
Australia.
Hi,
Here's just one vote *NOT* to use Discourse. It's a
discussion
system, not email. So we have to go there to see if
anything is new
rather than just having info come in our inbox. For me
(YMMMV) I
find it like having an inconvenient PO Box that you have
to
intentionally go visit to see if anything is there vs.
mail being
delivered to my home mailbox.