[PLUG] Greetings and update

[Russell Senior]

My only point with the number is that group.io would charge something like
$15/month. Not speaking for PLUG, I think OSUOSL is a nice fit for us. I
also appreciate the kind offer.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 09:51 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at portlandia-it.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
>