[TowerTalk] Moving ham radio eflectors to permit attachments
Lux, Jim
jim at luxfamily.com
Tue Dec 21 11:18:17 EST 2021
On 12/21/21 5:53 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> Since my earlier posting, I have learned that since February, 2021,
> groups.io has charged for groups larger than 100 members. While I
> think donations could easily cover these costs, and would be willing
> to administer a donations account on Paypal, that might be just too
> much complexity for some sysops. In that case, how about Google
> Groups? So far as I can tell, their email groups are completely free,
> regardless of size.
>
I've been on several mailing lists for years, on various platforms. I'm
also of the "original" computer generation, so that creates some biases
(see Gretchen McCulloch's great book "Because Internet: Understanding
the New Rules of Language".) I'm a moderator on a list (Tesla Coil
Mailing List) so I have some insight into that as well.
Yes, the ability to have attachments is tough, but it's not that hard to
set up google drive, dropbox, etc. and post a link.
That makes moderation easier - no worries about infected or off-color
attachments. Yes, moderators sometimes take a look at what's linked to,
if the url looks funky, or if its a new poster. (and I do that in a
sandbox).
The various message board/forum/mailing software works moderately ok,
but often has some idiosyncracies that are a pain. For instance, they
may assume everyone is using the threaded web interface, so if you're
just looking at emails, they don't have any context. Of course, you
also don't get the phenomenon of a 30 mail long digest with a bunch of
long threads, each 10 mails long. I've also noticed that some sites
(groups.io) has recently implemented something where it rejects a reply,
unless you have *recently* downloaded mail from the list. This is a pain
if you use mail in an episodic fashion (i.e. you work during the day and
don't check for personal mail until evening).
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