On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:04:52 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: > Speaking from experience: Running your own server is a bit of a pain - > to setup, and to administer,
Must be my day to reply to email messages ;-) Yes, I've tried that before. > and it's best done on a server with a > static IP address, not on a desktop behind a NAT router. My desktop has a static IP address, behind a NAT router. (But it is an address in one of the private ranges (192.168.n.n) > (Sympa is what > I recommend for those who want to run their own, by the way.) > > For simple things, I hate to recommend it, but google groups is about as > free & easy as it gets. I don't know why I didn't really think of that, but I guess the times I've been involved with groups that used it, there were things I didn't like about it, but I may look again. > Otherwise, I expect somebody in your membership might have a corporate > machine they'd host you on. No, we're a small group, mostly retirees at this point (I think). When I asked at the last meeting, nobody had anything to offer. Have a good day!