On Jan 25, 2019, at 8:51 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Regarding hosting of the email list server... worst case, were Google Groups > to shut down with no good migration offering... if we can't find a turn-key > email list service we like, we could always run the time-honored MailMan on > either one of the affiliated universities' in-house systems (if the non-owned > .org domain name isn't a problem for that .edu), or on Linode/AWS/etc. GDPR now mandates data portability for companies serving European citizens. IIRC, Google, among others, just a few months ago, set up some standards for exchanging data among competing services to comply with the new law. If we go for some other service, we should check that they have a good statement regarding GDPR compliance.
At the university where I worked until recently, we had a MailMan server and it was trivial to set up a group on just about any vaguely academic topic you wanted. However, they decommissioned the server just last year and now use a combination of features from Microsoft cloud services. University IT has been moving away from anything maintained in-house. The idea is that it is better for the IT department to act as a broker for external services. With forum hosting, specifically, spam is an issue. Our servers, or even our whole domain, were increasingly getting blocked by external servers. SaaS (Software as a Service) is now the first choice. I don't know if other universities are, or will be, making similar decisions but I wouldn't be too surprised. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
