Dear 44Net Members,

Many thanks to all of you who responded to the ‘44Net + Groups.io’ survey back in June. Thank you also for your patience in our follow-up, as it’s been a very busy summer here at ARDC.

Here’s what we learned from the 54 folks who responded:

* 90% of you were familiar with Groups.io * 52% of you were interested in moving from mailman.ardc.net to Groups.io * The remaining 48% of you either wanted to remain on Mailman or wanted more information about a move to Groups.io (with a pretty even split between those two groups)

A nearly 50/50 split is not enough to warrant a migration of this mailing list to Groups.io. It does, however, tell us that there is a general interest in making the move, and that many of you would like more information before making a decision one way or another.

In an effort to provide more information, in the coming months, our team will put together some educational information about groups.io, so be on the lookout. Until then, feel free to peruse around ardc.groups.io and give some of the subgroups a try. Some information about how to join the subgroups is provided below this email.

Depending on how things go, we may move the full mailing list over to ardc.groups.io over time. For now, though, please consider this only an experiment! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at any time at contact@ardc.net. You can also post questions and comments here or on ardc.groups.io.

Looking forward to the discussion!

73, Rosy + ARDC Staff

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For those of you who are interested in joining the mentined subgroups, here’s how:

* Join the ‘Main’ group at ardc.groups.io. * Once approved, you’ll be automatically added to the Community subgroup for general discussions (the ‘Main’ group serves as an announcement group, where only ARDC staff can post). * From here, you can join many of the other subgroups for special interest topics.

44Net VPN Subgroup: https://ardc.groups.io/g/net-44-vpn 44Net Wiki Subgroup: https://ardc.groups.io/g/wiki/ Subgroup list (which has some info about each group): https://ardc.groups.io/g/main/subgroups

If you get stuck, our resident groups.io expert John Hays K7VE is here to answer any questions. Reach out any time: john.hays@ardc.net