Paul Ojanen
2015-02-26 16:51:52 UTC
Thank you for the notice and warning regarding the move to Google Groups.
Will a Google group work well for people with just an email address and not Google accounts nor gmail accounts? Or those unwilling to use them?
Will digests be available?
Regards,
Paul
Racket Users list:
http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
Will a Google group work well for people with just an email address and not Google accounts nor gmail accounts? Or those unwilling to use them?
Will digests be available?
Regards,
Paul
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:37:04 -0800
Subject: [racket] Racket Users moving to Google Groups
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear all,
PLT would like to get out of the mailing-list administration game.
We?re
therefore proposing to move the Racket Users mailing list to Google
Groups.
In fact, we?ve already begun the process of moving our mailing lists;
the
developers mailing list, racket-dev, has already moved to Google
Groups,
without major incident[*].
In particular, it?s still possible to send mail to the developers
mailing
continue
group.
I?m proposing that we make this move for the Users mailing list some
time
in mid-to-late March.
Google has a cap on the number of e-mail addresses that can be invited
to a
mailing list, and an even tighter cap on the number of e-mail addresses
that can be directly added. For this reason, we?re going to ask you to
sign
*yourself* up for the new group, when we move. After a brief interval,
we?ll begin inviting all of the e-mail addresses that don?t yet appear
on
the new mailing list. There are currently 1532 members on the users
list,
though, so this is going to take a while.
One potential hiccup: there is an existing Users google group, and
we?re
hoping to re-purpose this as the main group rather than as an archive.
This
list has a google setting?"list is an archive?, if I recall
correctly?that
is now deprecated. It seems possible that making changes to the way
this
list is configured could have unexpected consequences, and makes it
impossible to test various transition scenarios.
The local mailman archive of the existing list will continue to exist,
though new messages will not be added to it. The remote archives at
gmane
and mail-archive and marc should be able to handle the transition, and
hopefully will not drop too many messages during the transition.
Let us know how this sounds to you!
John Clements
[*] We?re still waiting to hear from gmane and marc.info about archive
updates; mail-archive has successfully made the jump already.
____________________Message: 4
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:37:04 -0800
Subject: [racket] Racket Users moving to Google Groups
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear all,
PLT would like to get out of the mailing-list administration game.
We?re
therefore proposing to move the Racket Users mailing list to Google
Groups.
In fact, we?ve already begun the process of moving our mailing lists;
the
developers mailing list, racket-dev, has already moved to Google
Groups,
without major incident[*].
In particular, it?s still possible to send mail to the developers
mailing
continue
group.
I?m proposing that we make this move for the Users mailing list some
time
in mid-to-late March.
Google has a cap on the number of e-mail addresses that can be invited
to a
mailing list, and an even tighter cap on the number of e-mail addresses
that can be directly added. For this reason, we?re going to ask you to
sign
*yourself* up for the new group, when we move. After a brief interval,
we?ll begin inviting all of the e-mail addresses that don?t yet appear
on
the new mailing list. There are currently 1532 members on the users
list,
though, so this is going to take a while.
One potential hiccup: there is an existing Users google group, and
we?re
hoping to re-purpose this as the main group rather than as an archive.
This
list has a google setting?"list is an archive?, if I recall
correctly?that
is now deprecated. It seems possible that making changes to the way
this
list is configured could have unexpected consequences, and makes it
impossible to test various transition scenarios.
The local mailman archive of the existing list will continue to exist,
though new messages will not be added to it. The remote archives at
gmane
and mail-archive and marc should be able to handle the transition, and
hopefully will not drop too many messages during the transition.
Let us know how this sounds to you!
John Clements
[*] We?re still waiting to hear from gmane and marc.info about archive
updates; mail-archive has successfully made the jump already.
Racket Users list:
http://lists.racket-lang.org/users