Kenneth, I think the list is very worthwhile and should be kept, as much as possible, the way it is. Surely there is some place for the OGD. Would a small donation from the members help?
icones ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <orchids@orchidguide.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:28 PM Subject: [OGD] changes in the OGD ? > Hello all, > > > Over the past couple of months (and I'm sure it has been "years" to > some) I have received more and more complaints of no digests being > delivered although the people in question were members. > Some of these complaints were easy to fix and involved local spam > filters ;-) , other problems were much more complicated as the > mailserver used to distribute the OGD was blacklisted for spamming... > add to that a host that does not react quickly and you can imagine the > frustration on both subscriber and listowners end. > > > I feel now that the time has come to make some changes and being on > the lookout for a new host I fear that I will have to make _drastic_ > changes. > > Many hosts nowadays put a limit on the number of e-mail messages being > sent out and so far the common figure seems to be 200/hour ! > Yes, a mere 200 mail messages per hour... I might seem a lot to some > but the list officially has some 1500 addresses subscribed, so that > means a delay of 7 hours (!) to get the digest out to the last person. > In the past, when the discussions were still lively and we had lots of > participants, we sometimes sent out 3-4 digest per day ! > > At this moment I have not found a solution whereby list management > would remain linked to the domain as I don't have the time, knowledge > nor the money to take up dedicated server hosting. > I have considered external hosting like coollist, googlegroups and > yahoogroups but have discarded them because they add advertising and > some of these actually require you to open an account with them... > > I am right now looking into freelists (freelists.org) and this seems good. > > Does anybody else have suggestions about the future of the OGD ? > Does anybody have experience using freelists ? > Do you still like the OGD to be email based ? > Should I have dropped the "to be email based" in the previous question ? > ;-) > > > kind regards, > > Kenneth > OGD listowner. > > > _______________________________________________ > the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) > orchids@orchidguide.com > http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com > _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
