Re: Retiring mailing list on January 1, 2026

I agree self hosting would be better than hosted with ads on a service that
simply won't work as well as pairlist/mailman anyway because pairlist as it
works now is untenable, as described in their notice. A new design/software
package would need to be selected. Self hosting is also preferable
especially when these companies torch everything when they close down often
with barely any notice. 3 months is fine, but why not 1 or 2 years? Will
they be archiving this data with a service like archive.org?

I'd be happy to host such a service but there are a lot of challenges with
self-hosting email. I've self-hosted email before and the challenges are
not insurmountable, if you can accept that some people simply will not get
emails from a self hosted service. We can partner with an email service but
that's not particularly cheap, would cost well over $100/year maybe closer
to $200.

It would be helpful if someone like Dennis or perhaps the coco club could
moderate such a system as I would rather just host and manage such a
service and not actually moderate it. I know the CoCo club also is in
search of a mail service for periodic newsletters/communications so the two
problems could be solved at the same time with the proper engineering.





On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM RETRO Innovations via Coco <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9/24/2025 1:31 PM, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
> > If the GNU mail list itself toast? Ideally, we’d have a server lease
> with the software and could control it ourselves, as opposed to Google,
> Yahoo, etc. that come and go with their offerings as well.
>
> I believe Dennis was just providing a heads up on upcoming changes, not
> soliciting ideas.
>
> On the larger topic, I think Dennis commented on this last time there
> was a discussion about the list.  I say this because I don't think
> everyone agrees with your "ideally" statement. I think Dennis is in that
> camp as well.
>
> Jim
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