oslist will end soon -- it's time to deliberate, decide and act

[Michael Herman]

this sounds great, harold.  osi-us could get us into the free deal?

do you agree that best option is to migrate to another listserv host and,
failing that, fall back to this option?

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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>wrote:

>  Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for all your research on this. There's another option to consider.
> The Open Space Institute for the US has managed to start using the free and
> open source list serve software that runs and looks almost exactly like the
> current ListServe for free using a generous web hosting company that gives
> out web host services to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations.
>
> It takes very little administration - as the Web Hosting company provides a
> one click install for the "Mailman" program, which is the List Serve
> software which is widely used:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
>
> And there is even a path to maintain the logs for browsing and searching in
> a similar way to how they are searchable and browsable now. It would take a
> little techie work - but I'd be happy to help with that.
>
> Even if we didn't want get help from a current 501(c)(3) organization
> (which would make it free) going with this kind of solution would only cost
> about $100 US a year.
>
>     Harold
>
>
> On 12/1/10 10:47 AM, Michael Herman wrote:
>
>
> 1. the oslist will cease to exist in its current form not later than june
> of next year.
> 2. boise state is migrating their own lists to googlegroups
> 3. boise state is NOT migrating any archives (so we're on our own with
> that)
> 4. our archives will be delivered to us on a single CD
> 5. they will be in the form of 150 monthly log files (roughly, 12 months x
> 12 years)
> 6. these monthly files can be read easily in any text editor
> 7. they can be read less easily when opened directly in a web browser
> application
> 8. the BEST way to keep the archives and the list going is another l-soft
> listserv host org
> 9. finding another listserv host organization is something anyone can help
> with... now!
> 10. we already have oslist at googlegroups.com set up, so that's available
> if/when we want to use it
>
>
>
> --
> Harold Shinsato
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> http://shinsato.com
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>

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