Re: Future of this mailing list

["T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph@xxxxxxxxx>]

My #1 objection to Google is the headache I had to go through to get 
copies of my own messages from lists--though that had a lot to do 
with Gmail and shouldn't really factor into Google Groups too much.

I had to use two Gmail accounts and couldn't get rid of the Sender: 
nonsense.  Of course, the new way to do that (authenticated SMTP on 
the server you want to send from) doesn't actually solve that.  
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good solution to this except 
for using another server to fake a from address.

If my figuring that none of that matters to Google Groups, I'm fine 
with that (although I'm unlikely to use the web forum.)  I am more 
familiar with mailman, obviously.

Joseph

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:04:23PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:47:28PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>> > > I prefer alioth, Google groups often gives me pain.
>> >
>> > Just curious: which kind of pain?
>>
>> Stop sending emails due to bouncing spam eg
>
>Ah, I see. My mailman installs would actually do the same to you.
>VERP list maintenance indeed doesn't get along with spam on a list.
>
>That said for a subscriber only list, that should not happen since it blocks
>spam, and that removes work on the list owner for having to manually remove
>bouncing addresses.
>
>BTW, I'm not trying to push one against the other, especially as I am a
>google employee. I was just curious as a former large list maintainer
>(lists.sourceforge.net) and mailman developer.
>
>Marc
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