Will Ross wrote:
> I agree with Bhaskar's proposal.   The openhealth@yahoogroups.com 
> list is not broken, so there is no need to "fix" it.   Rather than 
> dissipate community resources in an unnecessary technology migration 
> task, let's concentrate instead on the governance and planning tasks 
> needed for a cohesive re-launch of OSHCA.

OK, no problem. However, Horst's kind offer stands in case OSHCA does
ever need a server.

Tim C

> On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Peter Holt Hoffman wrote:
> 
>  > 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!>
>  >
>  >
>  > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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