Re: [UG-ADMINS] Using Google Groups for user group mailing lists?

Ben Ramsey wrote:
> What do you use for your mailing lists? Why? If you've moved your lists 
> to something like Google Groups, why did you do so, and what did you 
> move away from?

We (DCPHP - http://groups.google.com/group/washington-dcphp-group ) 
switched from Mailman (hosted by Tux.org, the local non-profit for the 
LUGs) to Google Groups for two reasons:

*  Search
*  Findability

Having a good search for the archives was nice, but being findable by 
the larger internet is more important.  If people have ego/keyword 
searches set up, public Google Groups will be picked up, so we've seen a 
good deal of "I happened to find you guys" sort of traffic.

In the month since the switch, the subscriber count shrunk by about 40% 
but the list traffic has almost doubled.  And after looking at the 
missing 40%, most of them were recruiters not received messages anyway.

My 0.02,
keith

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D. Keith Casey, Jr.
CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC
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