[FredLUG] Re: Mailing list or Message Board?

[Peter Larsen]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:57 +0000, Xenophod wrote:
>> I use this as a message board more than a mailing list, since you can
>> save documents and create "pages" and stuff.
>> ( http://groups-beta.google.com/group/fredlug?hl=en )
>>
>> Who uses this as a plain mailing list?
>>
>> Who uses this as a message board?
>>
>>
>> Just wondering.
> 
> Good questions all.  I think the GoogleGroups list and page was a
> stop-gap measure since we just happened to gear back up at a time that
> tux.org was experiencing some difficulties.  They've resolved those and
> Peter Larsen has taken up the banner to get us a new and improved
> presence there.  When that happens, we may redirect fred-lug.org to that
> site.  If we use a server redirect on the current server for a few
> months, that might get our Google hits pointing to the right place, then
> we could transition to a DNS change and an Apache rewrite on the new
> site.  There are other possibilities; I'm sure Peter is working up a
> strategy.

Right now I waiting to get a consensus from the group here. We should 
discuss it on Saturday. The tux.org box is way old - a 2.4 kernel and 
PHP3 - not php4. A new server is on the docket and has been donated and 
it will of course be a little more "modern" ;)   The issue is, that with 
php3 and NO mysql, we're sorta limited in the ability to run sites like 
that on fred-lug.org.

We can either do an easy redirect from http://tux.org/fredlug (the 
current site) for now??  The content on that site is very much out-of-date.

I would like to, for now, create a redirect now and let's discuss 
options on Saturday?

> Long and short, my $0.02 is let's not get married to Google Groups just
> yet, since if we use tux.org we are closer to "owning" our content.

I agree. While "google rules" I don't think I like the idea of ANY 
company owning the content of our mailing-list.

Regards
   Peter Larsen

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