[mapserver-users] slightly offtopic -- mapserver forums

[Daniel Morissette]

Eric Hillmuth wrote:
> 
> A few of the mailing lists I follow have moved onto Yahoo Groups. One
> can access the discussions from either the web or email and upload
> files, images etc. The downside of such a setup of course is that folks
> are dependent on an internet startup as our only means of community /
> tech support for a particular piece of software.
> 

I was actually going to suggest that we use the Yahoo Groups service to
mirror (or host) the list in my previous postings (as an alternative to
setting up our own web-based list server) but I gave up since my
replies were already getting long enough.

I have been member and have hosted some lists for at least 2 years on
Yahoo Groups (formerly eGroups) and I don't remember having any problems
with them... one thing I noticed is that messages are delivered really
quick (within a few minutes for a 150 members list, or maybe I've just
been lucky?).  They also have a web interface, search engine, etc...
(Well, ehh... I find the web interface slow to use, but we covered that
already!  ;) ... and best of all you are not tied to the web interface:
you can do everything via Email.

With respect to "depend(ing) on an internet startup", one can always
setup an alias to archive all the list messages locally, so if
yahoogroups ever goes down then you simply move your archive somewhere
else.

So if the question had been "should we switch to Yahoo Groups?" then my
vote would have been different.

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