On 11-03-19 06:18 PM, Alan Walker wrote:

Thank you for the suggestion Casey, but we believe the Google Groups
interface will suite us better

That's not necessarily true.  Since mailing list messages come into my mail program, the Google Groups interface makes no difference to me.

This is a mailing list for Wikemedians about Wikimedia, with the endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation.  A Wikimedia-hosted mailing list server is the appropriate place for this list.

And, as Gerald mentioned, I'm not too fond of giving Google control of the list.  Yes, I've used Google Groups before, and don't want to give them any more of my demographics.

--Bob.

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On 11-03-19 09:38 PM, Gerald A wrote: 
Hi,

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Casey Brown <lists@caseybrown.org> wrote:


Had you contacted the original owner of the list?  (Zanimum/Nicholas
Moreau)  I'm sure he would've been happy to give you the password.  If
he wasn't contactable, you could've created a bug and asked us to
reset the password.

You guys are free to choose to use a different platform from mailman,
of course.  I just thought it was strange and I'm not a big fan of
unnecessary moves. :-)


I'll chime in and say I'd prefer to stay on mailman, rather then moving to
another list hosting software, even if it is hosted off wikimedia servers.

I know some people who aren't all that thrilled with using Google software,
and who would avoid the list for that reason, which I think is another
reason to reconsider. (google groups are ultimately in Google's control,
unlike Mailman).

I'm also concerned there wasn't any on-list discussion of this prior to the
decision being handed down from "above". I think it would be proper
netiquette to ask the subscribers and find out the whereabouts of the list
owner.

Gerald



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