Re: Future of this mailing list

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
> 
>> What do people think of the Google Groups or Mailman on alioth options?
> 
> I migrated a group to google groups in the past year, and ended up not 
> very happy with the choice.  For one thing, people have to create a 
> google account in order to subscribe themselves.  It's strange--the 

That's not true.  People can send an email to
groupname+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to subscribe.  You can't subscribe
*via the web* without an account, but you can by email.

> Also, if you got a subscriber list import approved after a month, you're 
> lucky.  In my case they just rejected the request.  I had to import 100 
> addresses by hand, a few at a time, and they won't even tell you how 
> many "a few" is, but if you go over the secret limit then something bad 
> happens.

Yeah, their support leaves something to be desired.

-- John