Re: [UG-ADMINS] What about making this list public on https://www.mail-archive.com/

I prefer email. One less place to check.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016, at 01:36 PM, Gordon Forsythe wrote:
> Not to derail the conversation as a noob to the group, but is a mailing
> list the best thing to even use anymore?  I'm not saying to use a slack
> channel, because that's not a realistic solution for threaded discussions
> (more on that in a bit).  Also, I don't want to start a flame war on
> this,
> just throwing out a few thoughts.  If everyone likes an email list, no
> worries.
> 
> I mainly bring this up because now that Jeremy's helping out with my
> group,
> I needed to set up something for our organizers/admins to use (since
> there's now more than one).  Personally, I'm not a fan of mailing lists
> as
> I don't feel they're very good for social interaction and it's too easy
> to
> lose information along the way in a thread (and same for "chat" apps like
> slack since there are no real threads at all).  The mailing list I've had
> for azPHP for years is pretty much dead now and 99% of our current
> interaction is in a facebook group.  Even a crappy forum would be better
> than an email list IMO.
> 
> A few free options I'm currently playing with:
> 
> * Glip - Relatively simple and intuitive.  Unfortunately making a team
> with
> this only allows one person to be the administrator for a team. This
> product has tasks & calendar integration, which gives it an edge up on
> slack.  The interesting thing about glip is you only ever need one
> account.  You can create multiple teams and add other users as either
> guests or co-workers.
> * Ryver - Full disclosure: I worked at Contatta, which is what Ryver came
> from after they ripped 2/3 of the functionality we had built out of it
> (used to have tasks, calendar, and be an actual email client).  I no
> longer
> work there, but what they've built is a step up from slack in that you
> can
> actually make threaded discussions by making a "Post" and commenting on
> it.  You can also reply to other comments.
> 
> If anyone has any other options, I'd love to hear them.  A google group
> would probably be fine, but it's still pretty much just email.
> 
>   Gordon