Proposal for mail list / archive

[Jesper Lund Stocholm]

Hello all,

It seems to me that the proposals from Jirka and I are more or less similar, so I do not have any strong preference for either.

I recommend we find/choose a solution that solves our problem /now/ and stop investigating usage of Google Groups as well as using programmers of JISC to solve the task.

Jesper Lund Stocholm
ciber Danmark A/S

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka at kosek.cz]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:23 PM
> To: Jesper Lund Stocholm
> Cc: SC 34 WG4
> Subject: Re: Proposal for mail list / archive
> 
> Jesper Lund Stocholm wrote:
> 
> > Here is my proposal that I presented at last week’s telephone
> conference.
> 
> Thanks Jesper.
> 
> And there is second one from me.
> 
> I can host any number of mailing lists on my university servers for
> free. University uses mailman for managing mailing lists, so archiving
> and moderation is not problem, this is very flexible package.
> 
> Example of web accessible archive is here:
> 
> http://mailman.vse.cz/pipermail/4iz228/
> 
> (note that our lists can be configured to use English in user
> interface, this one is using Czech so don't be confused).
> 
> E-mail of mailing list archive will have to be in form
> something at vse.cz, for example sc34wg4 at vse.cz.
> 
> I have asked about longevity of mailman. Currently there are no plans
> to discontinue mailman and its support. But of course no one will give
> me stamped paper saying that they will offer service for another 15
> years.
> But even if they are going to stop mailman in future, it will be
> possible to download archives and publish them somewhere else.
> 
> > The price for the solution above is just 16 euros per month (incl
> VAT).
> 
> I have nothing against raising Danish GDP by 16€/month, but in Czech I
> can get 10 GB webhosting including 10 mailing lists on own domain for
> 5€/month. (e.g. http://www.web4u.cz/webhosting/ they are using  ezmlm
> as mailing list software). Wouldn't this be international mailing list
> I would say that here in Czech we are cheap b&#&@#s from Eastern (read
> Central) Europe ;-D
> 
> > It is my estimate that if SC34 secretariat chooses this solution,
> we’d
> > have a system running within 14 days. If the financial cost is a
> > problem, I’d be happy to sponsor the first 6 months of costs, and
> > after this, we/you can evaluate status and choose to continue with
> > this or take another route. I’d also be happy to set up the system
> for
> > our initial use in WG4.
> 
> Setting up mailing list on university or using some Czech webhosting
> company also should not take more then 14 days.
> 
> 				Jirka
> 
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