[okfn-help] Does anyone like Mailman?

Tue May 17 10:20:50 UTC 2011

+1 - we also talked about this in Brighton. Tim is going to speak to
the developer behind GroupServer and see how much effort it would be
to migrate lists, then we can evaluate it as a possibility!


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Tim McNamara
<paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> I've been chatting to Lucy about the intimidation factor of seeing several
> dozen mailing lists. I've been using GroupServer[0] with a few other groups
> and would like to recommend its adoption by OKFN.
> "GroupServer has an email interface like Mailman, and a web interface like
> Google Groups, but it's GPL."[0] To get a sense of what it is like as a
> visitor, I recommend visiting the NZ open government ninjas mailing list[1].
> Its feature list[2] is actually much more complete than Google Groups. One
> of the features I like the best is how it handles files. Rather than sending
> attachments to everyone, it stores attachments on the server and sends
> recipients a link. This saves everyone bandwidth & there's a web accessible
> permanent location for every file if you ever need it later.
>
> Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks  |  timmcnamara.co.nz
>
> [0] http://groupserver.org/groupserver
> [1] http://groups.open.org.nz/groups/ninja-talk
> [2] http://groupserver.org/groupserver/features/
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