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

[Stuart Pettygrove (gspettygrove]

I can't say much about which platform is the best, but whatever is done, I
hope that ability to search the archive is retained. This has been
invaluable to our community.
Stu Pettygrove
Washington Commons Cohousing
West Sacramento CA

On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

> 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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