[racket] users Digest, Vol 114, Issue 64

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Paul Ojanen <engineer at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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 <johnbclements at gmail.com>
> >To: "users at racket-lang.org" <users at racket-lang.org>
> >Subject: [racket] Racket Users moving to Google Groups
> >Message-ID:
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> >
> >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 dev at racket-lang.org, and we?re planning to
> >continue
> >to use the users at racket-lang.org 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 marc.info about archive
> >updates; mail-archive has successfully made the jump already.
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