On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Paul Ojanen <engin...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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 > > > >------------------------------ > > > >Message: 4 > >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:37:04 -0800 > >From: John Clements <johnbcleme...@gmail.com> > >To: "users@racket-lang.org" <users@racket-lang.org> > >Subject: [racket] Racket Users moving to Google Groups > >Message-ID: > > <CAAwfr=VG81Pvf327j22d4E8DSb8P1Po14=c5NJ=XNH= > va5-...@mail.gmail.com> > >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 > >list using the address d...@racket-lang.org, and we?re planning to > >continue > >to use the users@racket-lang.org e-mail address for the new users > >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 >
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