[Gambas-user] Mailinglist

[Adrien Prokopowicz]

Le Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:33:04 +0200, T Lee Davidson  
<t.lee.davidson at ...626...> a écrit:

> On 08/19/2017 05:42 AM, Benoît Minisini via Gambas-user wrote:
>> Le 19/08/2017 à 08:13, Christof Thalhofer a écrit :
>>> Am 18.08.2017 um 17:09 schrieb Benoît Minisini via Gambas-user:
>>>
>>>> Does GitLab plan to offer a mailing-list feature? I will pray for
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> Maybe its better not to rely to one vendor only. Why not switching over
>>> to a vendor for mailinglists like
>>>
>>> https://www.freelists.org/about.html
>>  I send them a request for a new Gambas mailing-list.
>>
>>>
>>> or ...
>>>
>>> make a subdomain list.gambaswiki.org and host a mailinglist by self?
>>> Thats not rocket science.
>>  Yes, but it takes time to deal with.
>>
>>>
>>> The latter is sth I could do, as I already host gambas-club.de at my
>>> hosting provider. As I can see the traffic the Gambas lists creates is
>>> not a big problem.
>>>
>>> But I'm in holliday right now.
>>>
>>> Alles Gute
>>>
>>> Christof Thalhofer
>>>
>>  OK, thanks. I will wait for your return.
>>  If anyone has ideas about how and where to host at least two  
>> mailing-lists, you are welcome!
>>  Regards,
>>
>
> There may be reason to be concerned about the long-term reliability of  
> freelists.org. They use three different free software packages, two of  
> which haven't been updated in over three years and the third's website  
> doesn't even load.
>
> The Gambas community might be better served by setting up Mailman at  
> something like list.gambaswiki.org as suggested; even though Mailman  
> setup does not, at first glance, appear simple and would take an initial  
> time investment.

I'm having the same feeling about freelists.org. Not only the software they
rely on look abandoned, but I couldn't find any kind of blog/newsletter  
giving
signs of life from the administrators.
The closest I could find is their "updates" mailing-list, which hasn't been
updated since 2005 !

I have looked for free & open-source mailing-list providers, but they all  
seem
pretty outdated. The best I could find was https://framalistes.org/, but  
their site
seems to only be in French …

However, self-hosting is another long-term investment, and requires  
continuous
maintenance, so I don't think it is worth it. But if Christof can offer
that hosting (as he already hosts other lists), I think it can be a good  
idea. :-)

-- 
Adrien Prokopowicz