I agree with Bhaskar for all the reasons he enumerated in his email below (I
edited it to just the relevant portion). I would also like to take this
opportunity to thank him for having started this group.
-- Peter.
-----Original Message-----
From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bhaskar, KS
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:32 AM
To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [openhealth] Openhealth mailing list
<Peter - snip!>
In my role as moderator, I see myself as serving the wishes of the free
and open source software for healthcare community. One suggestion I
would make, however, is simply to leave the list at Yahoogroups. Yes,
we can create our own list on our own server, but then we would be
responsible for things like the list below for a server that will sit on
the Internet:
1. Backups.
2. Indexing and searching.
3. Anti-virus and spam filtering.
4. Security, including keeping up to date with patches.
5. Network access, bandwidth, data center operations.
I recently had an opportunity to observe the need to respond to a server
that was found to have the t0rn root kit installed on it, and it was
very disruptive on the lives of those who managed it.
Yahoogroups does all of this for us, and the price is some advertising
appended to each message (and if you opt for text messages rather than
HTML messages, the advertising is at the bottom and quite innocuous).
All the group moderators have to do is to approve requests to join the
group.
We already have several moderators from the community who are members of
the group, and there is redundancy should I, or any of the other
moderators, have something untoward happen to us and be unable to serve.
I am also happy to accept others who would like to volunteer to serve
the community as moderator.
<Peter - snip!>
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