[pianotech] Google groups

[Jim Moy]

No, because running a server that you control is quite beyond the scope of
simply administering the control panel of a hosted listserv.

Jim


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be just as easy to run a mailman listserver? OK, maybe not,
> but...
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Jim Moy <jim at moypiano.com> wrote:
>
>> A perfectly valid objection to the "cloud computing" way of things.
>>
>> If the pianotech run on Google servers goes away some day, how can you
>> guarantee its contents were preserved for the future, in the way we are
>> able with the Mailman list archives on the server we control?
>>
>> It seems like it would be a good idea to set up a machine subscriber to
>> the Google Group that automatically stores the emails it receives in an
>> archive that is under our control...
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> There's something else -- I don't trust the likes of Google or Yahoo at
>>> all, even though
>>> I'm part of a big Yahoo group. And Facebook --- why not just let a bunch
>>> of corporate
>>> jackals into your private home, unlock everything, let them take
>>> whatever they want
>>> and piss on the rest?
>>>
>>> Susan, now getting old and cranky
>>>
>>> Terry Beckingham wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, I thought I had Google groups figured out, but I guess I was
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>> It appears that the only way I can send to Google groups is to go onto
>>> the web and log into my Google account and send from there.
>>>
>>> I don't like going to the web if I don't have to, because I do not have
>>> high speed. I use Eudora for my email and everything comes directly into my
>>> Eudora. I can have Google forward from my Gmail account to my other
>>> address, but I can't send to Google groups from my Eudora.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something here? Is there a way to send from my Eudora to
>>> Google groups without logging onto my Google account on the web?
>>>
>>> I'm frustrated.
>>>
>>> Terry Beckingham
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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