Hi Etienne and *,
Etienne Gagnon writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am seeking suggestions.
>
> The SableCC mailing list will soon be losing its mail server.
> Unfortunately, due to increasing email infrastructure security to combat
> spam, it has become nearly impossible for individuals to host their own
> mail servers. As a result, it is not possible for me to host a mail
> server at home (ip address blocked by most receiving servers) or at the
> university (which has drastic email restrictions).
>
What about a commercially hosted virtual server {like
eg. http://www.1blu.de/server/vserver/}?
Could we bear this?
> I will need to migrate this mailing list elsewhere. Here are some of the
> options I have considered, so far, in order of highest to lowest preference:
>
> 1. Create a Google group for SableCC and invite all current SableCC
> mailing-list subscribers to it.
> 2. (re-)Create a mailing list on SourceForge. (But, I migrated away
> from it, before, because I didn't like its web archiving and its
> subscription interface, among other things).
Is it, that you don't like web-accessible archiving at all?
> 3. Get rid of the mailing-list and find some free "web forum" hosting
> on the net.
>
I'm much in favour of classic technologies like we know from mailing
lists [may be together with an nntp bridge, a web archive for those,
who are not long enough on the list to know history, ...], because
there is a lot of auxiliary technology around {procmail,
text-processing tools, ...}.
If one decides for a "modern" eg. web based solution, one looses much
of this client-side adaptability. And if hosting is not 100% under
your own control, you also get into problems wrt server-side
maintainability.
So, I would opt for a mailing list on a reliable platform. Academic
platforms are often run in a long-term spirit. Eg. one could ask the
maintainers of http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/, if they would host "us".
Many of the hosting sites on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
would also be considerable, but they tend to cover a more holistic
software development scope -- 'not sure, if this fits to simple
list-serving.
My 2% -- and thanks for all,
Markus
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