Re: KR> News Group Infrastructure

2017-03-12 Thread Joe. E. Wallace via KRnet
I am definitely on the E_MAIL list….. so easy to use and I never miss anything… love it… JW ___ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see

Re: KR> News Group Infrastructure

2017-03-11 Thread Patrick Flowers via KRnet
Mailinglists.org was the host that I'm referring to. I don't remember the fellow's name that ran it, be he started hosting lists for fire departments, IIRC. I'm pretty sure the server was in his home. On Sat, March 11, 2017 4:17 pm, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote: > > KRnet started out as a "usen

Re: KR> News Group Infrastructure

2017-03-11 Thread Mark Langford via KRnet
Patrick Flowers wrote: One other problem with "free" platforms. When the host can't figure out how to monetize the platform, it usually disappears. Remember Google Reader? One reason KRnet is with the current host - the previous host was a free service run out of a guys basement. He didn't even

Re: KR> News Group Infrastructure

2017-03-11 Thread Patrick Flowers via KRnet
One other problem with "free" platforms. When the host can't figure out how to monetize the platform, it usually disappears. Remember Google Reader? One reason KRnet is with the current host - the previous host was a free service run out of a guys basement. He didn't even try charging for it an

Re: KR> News Group Infrastructure

2017-03-11 Thread Mark Langford via KRnet
"Owen" wrote: > I do wonder if perhaps we should migrate the list to one of the many > other free infrastructures that would be a little more flexible and > allow us to store and share files and pictures. I don’t know how > hard moving the entire history would be, but I’m sure it could be > don

Re: KR> News Group Infrastructure

2017-03-11 Thread Patrick Flowers via KRnet
I'm sure Mark will be along shortly, but this has been tried before and failed. There's probably at least one, if not more, defunct KR groups on yahoo. Personally, I'll likely never visit yahoo again - it's a disaster zone. Unless they've completely overhauled the interface(and as I said - I sha