How many of us have OGD subscriptions for each computer -- home PC, work, laptop -- that are convenient, but redundant? Would cutting down on the duplicates help ease the load? If there are a couple of hundred duplicates . . .
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:28 PM To: orchids@orchidguide.com 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
