[SeasonOfDocs] Alternative discussion groups options

[Jo Cook]

Hi Cameron,
There's definitely an option to download the entire email archive (
https://groups.io/static/help#how-can-i-download-my-member-list-and-message-archive)
and they do provide information on what happens if/when you go over storage
limits (
https://groups.io/static/pricing#what-happens-if-i-go-over-my-storage-limits)-
you can automatically delete old attachments to avoid this, and I presume
configure it so that people can't attach large images to messages. I seem
to remember other mailing lists taking this approach too.

I'm -0 about Nabble as it seems unclear whether they show ads and do
tracking (if they don't, how do they keep the service running)?

Jo

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 1:19 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jo, I'm open to this.
> Possible risks are:
> * we push past the 1GB limit and then don't have money to pay
> * company goes out of business and we loose our history
> Are we able to export out emails at a later date?
>
> Another option is to archive the list using https://www.nabble.com/ (I
> note that a number of OSGeo email lists are archived on nabble). It appears
> that you can actually start a list on nabble too, which might address our
> requirements.
>
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 at 21:56, Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just catching up after another week away from email. I heartily recommend
>> it :-)
>>
>> I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that GitHub discussions might not do
>> everything we want, so I've started looking for alternatives and I came
>> across https://groups.io/. Does anyone have any experience of this
>> already?
>>
>> They offer a freemium service, but afaict their free offering ticks most,
>> if not all of our boxes- see https://groups.io/static/pricing for a
>> breakdown of features. The one slight issue might be the storage limit (1GB
>> for the free account) but there seem to be ways of managing that.
>>
>> Is this something you'd like me to pursue further, in terms of setting us
>> up a group that we can subscribe to and test messaging options/subgroups
>> etc?
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Jo
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