[aclug-L] Re: ACLUG mailing list future

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale W Hodge wrote:
> Considering the low volume of messages, either solution would work. The 
> real question though is which one handles spam the best. The amount of 
> spam that hits moderation has been staggering lately. While the users 
> never see it, somebody (me) has to deal with it.  Assuming Google groups 
> is up to the task, I'd probably prefer it.
> 
> As for the lists, at this point I see no reason to keep anything other 
> than the discussion list.

OK.  Thanks everyone; I think that's strong support for Google.  I will
work on migrating it over sometime in the next few days.  It should be
seamless.

As for the archives, they will continue and be better than ever,
actually.  Gmane.Org already has copies of all of the ACLUG list posts,
and will continue to have copies after we move to Google Groups.  I have
written some scripts to issue HTTP redirects from the old URLs of each
post and list page to the appropriate version over on gmane.  So even if
you have a URL to a specific post Dale made in 1998, it will continue to
work and bring up the right thing.  gmane's archives are better than
mine, anyway, because they don't break threads at month boundaries and
have full searching.

Alas, Google does not permit importing of old archives.

I will be setting up on Google as moderators anybody that was flagged as
such in the current system.

Thanks everyone,

-- John

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