[muglo] mailing list alternatives

On 21-Feb-09, at 4:25 PM, Wayne Dobson wrote:

> Would it be a good idea to link the google
> and the proboards sites in the Freewebs site so members can kick the
> tires?

Alternately, members of the list do - at least now - know of the links  
and choices at Google and Proboards. Some of us tried Yuku too. To put  
links up off the Freeweb site would allow non-members to see those  
sites, and really they aren't a true reflection of what's going on at  
Muglo.

Previous discussions about the alternatives got slightly more warm  
than was useful. Nothing was decided against. It was thought that it  
was best just to give the discussion a rest, and try the things out a  
bit more. People wanted the ability to post images in messages, for  
instance, or to easily put up pictures

The Forum model allows a more Special Interest Group structure, but no  
offline, or mailing list access.

The Google groups can't do forums, but has a mailing list structure  
users can access through email.

Freelists - our present listserv, once allowed sites such as Google to  
be subscribed to the list, so that messages sent to Muglo at freelists  
showed up on the Google Muglo mailing list. Images and attachments  
can't presently be sent through freelists.

Another alternative to a mailing list is a RSS feed. You can view  
messages in a 'headline-with-some-text' format in an app that does RSS  
feeds. Safari and Mail do this. You need to be online to access the  
full message through the RSS link.

Freewebs has ads on non-paying user sites. These are a nuisance. Some  
of us would like to get rid of them. This requires paying to upgrade  
our member status at freewebs, or moving to another host, or consider  
abandoning the website presence at all.

Muglo does have a domain name.

Drupal seems to be a web development environment. They provide a list  
of Drupal friendly hosts. Our site is no more than an interactive  
brochure - easily handled with javascript already. Where does our  
membership actually come from?


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