For me Google Groups do a good job and it's
enough.
Yes, I would support the proposal to look at Google Groups (as
alternative mailing list platform) closer.
As we can see Wikimedia Brasil and Wikimedia UK are using that
platform and perhaps not only them (I'm pushing this platform for
Wikimedia Ukraine while we started from Mailman-based list, provided
by WMF).
For me the main usability of using Google Groups is
for making
reference for a previous post.
Not just that. Some people appreciate option to
reply to the posting
by web-interface (without necessity to copy-paste anything from one
browser window to another etc.).
... I believe it's important to maintain
archived Wikimedia mailing lists discussions on their own server
If I'm not mistaken you mean that in any case (that is whatever
platform will be used) WMF should have ('maintain') archive of mailing
list on WMF' own servers. Right?
And it that context
Two volunteers have said there are various scripts for
archiving
mailing lists. I'll ask them.
are you talking about script which is able to copy (like backup or so)
Google Group archive to Mailman-formatted archive to be saved on WMF
servers?
Do you have any experience with usage of special Google group control
defining that mail archive will be out - on some proprietary servers
(if I'm not mistaken in understanding meaning of that control)?
Regards,
Pavlo
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Everton Zanella
Alvarenga<everton137(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/8/15 Andrew Turvey
<andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>om>:
When I subscribe to an email list I tend to get
emails delivered, but I sometimes find it useful to view older emails on the archive. I
know some people like to read all their emails on the archive, so this is also important
for them. It is also useful when you have to make a publicly accessible reference to a
previous post.
We've, recently, discussed about this on WikimediaBR-l and someone
pointed out Google Groups archiving solution.
http://groups.google.com/group/wikimediabr-l/topics
For me the main usability of using Google Groups is for making
reference for a previous post. Someone even asked if Wikimedia would
mind about the archiving using a third party platform. Do you all
think there is some problem?
The line spacing looks funny with the first and
you still lose the text formatting with the second.
For me Google Groups do a good job and it's enough. It's software just
convert HTML formatted texts to plain texts, which I believe it more
adequate for email communication.
Has anyone got any tips about how I can either
format an email to begin with or view the email afterwards to solve this problem?
Secondly, has this technology been developed recently? Seems it needs a bit of
investment, or alternatively, we need to move over to a better third party platform like,
perhaps, Yahoo Groups.
Two volunteers have said there are various scripts for archiving
mailing lists. I'll ask them. I believe it's important to maintain
archived Wikimedia mailing lists discussions on their own server, but
I don't see any problem in using third party platforms for purposes
such as making easier reference for the topics.
See you,
Tom
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