Re: Hosting

I've been using yahoogroups for a long time, and I don't think they're going
to go away anytime soon.   It's fairly easy to run one, as I've been running
the dadl motherlist, 77s list, and a private family list there.

  John

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Peter Chattaway
<petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>wrote:

> Well, let's not be too hasty here.
>
> I mean, first we have a few different people who want to take over the job
> of presiding over this list.  (I would not necessarily be opposed to doing
> that myself, depending on what was involved.)
>
> Second, we have the question of *how* this list should be maintained: on
> one of the free services, or another service, or whatever.
>
> I think we should try to get some consensus on these things before anyone
> "says the word".
>
> Re: the freebie services, the fact that a yahoogroup already exists leads
> me to think that it might be good to just return to that list, so that our
> resources and/or archives aren't *too* far-flung.
>
> On the other hand, Yahoo! doesn't seem to be very good at holding on to
> things for long -- they've shut down Yahoo! Photos, which is where I once
> stored the photos of Thom, Paul, Bruce and myself from the summer of 2000 --
> and they've shut down Geocities, which is where some of the coolest,
> earliest TST fanboy sites used to be.  Who knows what *else* they might shut
> down in the end?
>
> So maybe Google would be better.  Google recently tried to shut down Google
> Video, since the company does after all own YouTube too, but after a bit of
> an outcry they sent out an e-mail letting everyone know that the videos
> hosted on Google Video would remain there after all.  So they seem a bit
> more responsive, and a bit more willing to hold on to things online.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> > Date: Wed May 25 14:03:32 PDT 2011
> > From: "Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Hosting
> > To: "'DADL (off topic)'" <[email protected]>
> >
> > Say the word and I will set one up.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > Behalf Of Bruce Geerdes
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:01 PM
> > To: DADL (off topic)
> > Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Hosting
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Peter Chattaway <
> petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Just wondering, but would we even need to host a domain?  Or pay any
> > > money at all?  Could we not go back to the yahoogroup?  (Hmmm, why did
> > > we leave it, again?  I forget -- assuming I ever knew.)
> >
> > Good point. There's also Google Groups.
> >
> > We left the freebie services because they'd all get flaky at some point.
> > Maybe they're better nowadays.
> >
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