<div dir="ltr"> </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Paul Ojanen <<a href="mailto:engineer@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">engineer@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 <<a href="mailto:johnbclements@gmail.com">johnbclements@gmail.com</a>> >To: "<a href="mailto:users@racket-lang.org">users@racket-lang.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:users@racket-lang.org">users@racket-lang.org</a>> >Subject: [racket] Racket Users moving to Google Groups >Message-ID: > <CAAwfr=VG81Pvf327j22d4E8DSb8P1Po14=c5NJ=XNH=<a href="mailto:va5-Jdg@mail.gmail.com">va5-Jdg@mail.gmail.com</a>> >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 <a href="mailto:dev@racket-lang.org">dev@racket-lang.org</a>, and we?re planning to >continue >to use the <a href="mailto:users@racket-lang.org">users@racket-lang.org</a> 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 <a href="http://marc.info" target="_blank">marc.info</a> about archive >updates; mail-archive has successfully made the jump already. ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div> </div>