[GoLUG] Mailing list, long term.

[David Billsbrough]

Hello Steve and all,

What Steve is looking for is a modern version of the original 80/90's BBS system without wording it that way.

Think about it ... as as easy and quick to learn as the first group of computer user introduced to desktop computing.

So just drop the ASCII art and Text 'door' games.

Just make the 'client' easy to install and instead of talking RS-232 serial but uses TCP/IP and you have .....

https://www.synchro.net/

so in the GO language you port for Mac (UNIX) and Linux and *BSD user machines.

The server side is just a new improved mail 'tossing' system.

   ... as in no real need to make it anything like the weird FidoNet upgrade!!

regards,

David
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David Billsbrough -- Amateur Radio Callsign: KC4ZVW
Orange City, Florida * grid square: EL98iw * https://www.kc4zvw.us/
Atmel * BeagleBone * FreeBSD * Linux * PICmicro * RASPI

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Litt <slitt at 444domains.com>
Sent: Aug 14, 2025 10:01 PM
To: <golug at golug.org>
Subject: Re: [GoLUG] Mailing list, long term.


On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:42:21 -0700
Ron wrote:

> Steve Litt wrote on 2025-08-14 17:21:
>
> > If one LUG uses it, especially if that LUG is GoLUG, that's all the
> > uptake I need.
>
> Fair enough!
>
>
> > As long as we have a functional email mailing list, GoLUG uses the
> > functional email mailing list. If our email mailing list lasts
> > forever, we use it forever.
>
> Also understood.
>
>
> > Problem is, GoLUG has a history of mailing list admins quitting, and
> > lots of problems every time this happened. Mailman adminning is a
> > difficult, time consuming, and thankless job. We need MindMeld in
> > case we encounter a time when nobody can admin Mailman.
>
> With the end of life of Mailman2 (about *five* years ago), and
> Mailman3 being potentially the most overly complicated software
> package I've ever encountered: