Rich Kulaweic posted an excellant article on the negative aspects of yahoo groups about a year ago. My local kayak club, http://www.nspn.org, is basically Internet based they have a very active BBS. I don't read it that often, as I like a list that drops into my email folder instead of having to go visit the BBS. The outrigger canoe club that I paddle with uses an address list on the club captains machine. That "list" has very one way traffic - I think he's the only one that sends out messages. On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:07:25 -0800, "Bob Myers" <bob_at_intelenet.net> said: > Paddlewise (and its associated paddling lists, such as CKF, Baidarka, > GASP! etc) were originally set up by me at my startup ISP, about 8 years > ago (Paddlewise is a little younger than that actually, but the point > remains that I set up Majordomo for paddling lists in 1995). When I started the baidarka mailing list I started it as a mailing list saved in my email package. It only stayed that way for about 3 months. It just grew too fast so I set up a majordomo server on a unix machine at work. Sometime later it joined paddlewise on Bob's server when I had to change employers. Keeping a mailing list in your address book only works well for a small number of people. It also causes issues because the list isn't centralized, unless one person functions to redistribute the mailing list - yuck. > Paddlewise moved > off my company's hosts sometime after we were bought out by another > company, and now all these Majordomo lists run off my home server. We > have a full time commercial-grade Internet connection with dedicated IP > addresses (no dynamic addressing) and it also requires a certain degree > of dedication on my part too to make sure everything works most of the > time. The Paddlewise web site is set up on the same machine as the > Majordomo server. Has anyone on the list set up a majordomo list that retrieves email from a separate server using something like fetchmail? I've been contemplating getting webspace at somewhere like webmasters.com (any recommendations?) and moving paddlewise to there. I tried to get DSL to my house but I live too far from a CO. I can't host a website at home with my current ISP because they block the port 80 (used by webservers) - but they don't block the spam relays on port 25 :-( Kirk -- Kirk Olsen kork4_at_cluemail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 18 2003 - 14:08:10 PST
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