[PLUG] Greetings and update

[Russell Senior]

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On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 9:43 PM Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 4:51 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Just an update on the mailing list situation:
>>
>> Things are a *bit* better since we got some degree of control over the
>> mailing lists again, late on Monday. However, the mailing list software on
>> TidalHost is ... different. Not mailman, it is SmarterMail (from
>> smartertools.com, as in OUCH, some weird windows based commercial
>> exchange substitute, ick).
>>
>> We (Wes, Michael and I) are working on getting hosted at OSUOSL. It seems
>> that is going to happen, but we don't have the keys to the car yet, so
>> we'll be limping along on this version until we can get the new hosting
>> spun up and software installed and configured.
>>
>> Continued patience is appreciated.
>>
>> For everyone who seems to have been bombarded with bounces from
>> ptp at klickitat.com, that was because *my* self-hosted mail server was
>> down for three days. Sorry. Weirdly, I didn't see most of the bounces.  Any
>> sane mailing list shouldn't have stupidly spammed you all with the bounces,
>> regardless, so I'm not completely to blame. Probably because of the bounces
>> I was unsubscribed at some point, which I only realized last night.
>> Previous attempts to update you disappeared silently as a result.
>>
>> --
>> Russell Senior
>> russell at personaltelco.net
>>
>>
>>
> I love OpenSource as much as the next guy. All the other mailman/etc
> mailing list programs as well as the popular forums on Yahoo/AOL/etc. I've
> belonged to have all pretty much switched over to groups.io. Free and
> easy (up to 100 subscribers), lots of features, self-service for
> subscribing and unsubscribing, file and photo storage, calendar, polls,
> etc. It seems like a robust product and almost a no-brainer to manage.
>
> Maybe at least look at it?
>
> Michael
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