[BfB(oG)] Re: [prairiegreens] egroups as list host

Milt Epstein mepstein at uiuc.edu
Sun Jul 30 21:27:12 CDT 2000


On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Jim Buell wrote:

[ ... ]
> Maybe Zach could advise us about the feasibility of moving
> prairiegreens to his lists.groogroo.com server. I do admit I'd
> prefer it if a commercial enterprise weren't the keeper of our
> archives, even though egroups claims to be scrupulous about
> maintaining users' privacy. I agree that Green values of 'community
> based' and 'local control' don't quite match using egroups. (I don't
> think prairienet hosts listservs or other group email servers,
> though, or do they? I'm only aware of their .cmi newsgroups.)
[ ... ]

I know of some mailing lists done through prairienet, and Zach also
mentions that they do have them.  I don't know the details.  (I don't
necessarily have a preference regarding prairienet, I just wanted to
mention the apparent inconsistency regarding egroups.)

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
mepstein at uiuc.edu






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