[PLUG] Greetings and update

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

If you want I can host that at Portlandia Cloud Services. 600 is nothing.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG <plug-bounces at pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 10:48 PM
To: Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
Cc: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Greetings and update

The PLUG list has north of 600 subscribers.

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
>
>
>