On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 07:34 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 22:23 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Can you ask them? Probably better not to have several people asking > > the same questions. > > Hi, > I can ask David, the infradead.org person, though I thought I'll keep > the real paper work to somebody more knowledgeable than me. > > > We'd also need to know if they support migrating the > > current list membership. > > I won't do that. Let the people decide which sites hold their mail > addresses. Some may not like being moved to a different site without > their explicit agreement. People should also choose their mailing > list password on their own.
Fair enough. > > I think it would help if they could also host the archive, simply > > to > > avoid having it split between two sites, before and after the > > change. > > While it makes perfect sense for archive searching, I won't do that > too. When you open > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/ and > go to the bottom, then the Download section shows sizes for > respective > months since year 2000. Those are gzip compressed .mbox files. For > example September 2022 shows 511KB compressed and when I decompress > it, > it's 947K. I did not count all the years, but I'd rather not use so > much space on the new site immediately after moving there. That won't > be good. I think that would be up to the site admins to decide. My personal opinion is that the Freedesktop site looks more promising, purely in terms of the number of lists they host, but I'm fine with whichever one makes the transition easier. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
