Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Can we change the platform for this listserve?

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Re the possibility of migrating to Google Groups, my community had to move
to a new listserv platform on zero notice 3 years ago when our old provider
dumped us one day. As there was no time to research or experiment, I
immediately moved our 80-ish listserv subscribers to Google Groups which
was, indeed, very easy to set up.

However, I was able to mass-add only 10 emails at a time (so it required 9
iterations), and 2 or 3 people's emails could not be added by the
list-owner and had to be invited. Also, the format for adding
name-and-email entries in Google Groups was different from the previous
platform's Mailman format, so that took a good amount of front-end work on
my part.

I don't know if those issues still exist, but they caused the migration to
be more aggravating than I would have liked, and I assume Cohousing-L has a
lot more than 80-ish members.
    Muriel at Shadowlake Village

On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 12:36 PM Christine Jacobs <christinecjacobs [at] 
gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm grateful this listserv exist and the generous effort to manage it. I am
> also a big fan of the possibility of using a different platform, and would
> be happy to help set it up (and investigate transferring or saving the
> archives).  All of the listservs I'm on are through Google Groups which is
> rather simple for both administrators and members.
>
> There are ways to automatically add people to a listserv, and have no
> action required by the members.
>
> Warmly,
> Christine
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 9:41 AM Chapel, Thomas (CDC/NCIPC/DOP) via
> Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm techno-inept. If changing the platform would require any action on
> the
> > recipient's part, then I'm not in favor as I will surely screw it up.  😊
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l-bounces+tchapel=cdc.gov [at] cohousing.org> 
> > On
> > Behalf Of Yael Bat-Chava
> > Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 10:14 AM
> > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> > Subject: [C-L]_ Can we change the platform for this listserve?
> >
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> > I receive the digest version of this list, and am constantly frustrated
> by
> > strange fonts that replace other all kinds of punctuation marks, and the
> > formatting of the posts.
> >
> > I’m a member of multiple listserves that use groups.io as their
> platform.
> > It’s easy to set up, has a cleaner appearance and - to my knowledge - is
> > free.
> >
> > What would it take to change the platform so that the user experience is
> > more pleasant?
> >
> > Thanks all,
> >
> > Yael
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