[pianotech] real costs of running a listserv list

[Jim Moy]

Thanks Andy, for wise advice.

If anyone's not paying attention, Andy is one of the people revered on the
original pianotech list, and owed much for his work there.

Jim

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Andy Rudoff <andy at rudoff.com> wrote:

> I haven't been paying close attention to the latest discussion on the fate
> of pianotech, but the mention of my name woke me up and I thought I'd
> provide some facts about cost.  Hopefully this is helpful.
> ...
>
> Not that anyone is asking for my advice, but I'll offer it anyway.  In my
> years in the PTG I found it to consist of good-hearted, intelligent,
> well-meaning people who do often have differing opinions like any group.
> I'd encourage people to try to get the pianotech community back together as
> a whole community.  I felt very bad when it splintered.  One way to do that
> is for everyone to jump on the HL system and make do with the drawbacks,
> then over time continue to try to correct the issues.  Another way is to
> pick something very low overhead and easy to use like Google Groups.  The
> upfront expense of keeping the mailman list running is not large, but I
> think you'll end up re-visiting how to keep it running again and again as
> these other systems continue to evolve and improve.
>

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