I second Will Ross position and Bhaskar's recommendation. The yahoogroups email is working fine as far as I can see. I think it was problems with the other list that had caused some trouble in the past. Let's put this behind us and move forward.
Dave Forslund 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. > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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