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

We moved from Yahoo! groups to SourceForge a long time ago.

Still keep the Yahoo! groups "alive" with an occasional "ping" to suck
people in. :-)

Yahoo was just too annoying all around, but the ads were the final straw.

On Thu, April 9, 2009 2:17 pm, D. Keith Casey Jr. wrote:
> 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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