Jumping in to share my experience. We explored the possibility of using Google Groups when we unexpectedly lost access to our listserv via an academia host as well. However, it didn't fit our needs and we needed a solution that was free and up and running in 72 hours. I had quickly looked at it but saw It had feature limitations such as number of subscribers and emails sent and would require us to migrate domain services for email hosting. This was a year ago when I explored this possibility; it does seem they expanded their import/emails capacities but not sure about costs associated with it. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6099642?hl=en
Our solution was to migrate to MailChimp's free services and sending out emails weekly in a digest/newsletter format and have been doing this for free (albeit a bit more time on my end for content editing). Not the most ideal solution but our readers enjoyed the facelift and it's working for us for the last 12 or so months.
-Ashley
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Russell,
What do you consider to be the "participation limitations of GoogleGroups"?
David
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A couple of reflections from a long-time, but not especially knowledgable, listowner. I'm surprised about ASU here; my impression is that they've been a pretty reliable host for academic lists for a long time. On the other hand . . . many universities seem to have come to the conclusion that listservs are, um, old hat, and expensive, when people could use more trendy social media. That seems to me flat wrong, since in general "social media" assume that if it's more than 24 hours old it's not only forgettable, but hey presto! already forgotten. A substantial number have decided, or are deciding, that LISTSERV is too expensive to justify for the on-campus use it's getting. I've had to move one smallish group to GoogleGroups, and I know of another academic listserv that had to do the same because the host university dropped LISTSERV. The result has been that discussion has been essentially extinguished by the participation limitations of GoogleGroups. If you have to move this list off ASU, I wish you luck looking for a suitable host: it's not going to be easy. LISTSERV isn't, and shouldn't be, cheap.
-- Russ
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Subject: Re: HISTARCH list has vanished completely
LSoft's ListPlex service, which provides hosting, is here:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lsoft.com_products_listplex.asp&d=AwIGaQ&c=SgMrq23dbjbGX6e0ZsSHgEZX6A4IAf1SO3AJ2bNrHlk&r=dOGCMY197NTNH1k_wcsrWS3_fxedKW4rpKJ8cHCD2L8&m=ebUT0_TcNv_FD99fz0tu_Ul7B6smOSbedD9WRmTf3Hs&s=t1OXd05zaQJwpcWPg0pQc3P6j2wJvuVLnVqEM2FADHU&e=
This is for paying customers. Historically, they have donated hosting to a few non-profit orgs (I don't know if they are still taking on new groups):
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__community.lsoft.com_scripts_wa-2DLSOFTDONATIONS.exe-3FINDEX&d=AwIGaQ&c=SgMrq23dbjbGX6e0ZsSHgEZX6A4IAf1SO3AJ2bNrHlk&r=dOGCMY197NTNH1k_wcsrWS3_fxedKW4rpKJ8cHCD2L8&m=ebUT0_TcNv_FD99fz0tu_Ul7B6smOSbedD9WRmTf3Hs&s=Y5t2pjivBhMeNb83l1a1ocZhMMAstKWLAStOF2JrKU0&e=
Not listed here is a group of cancer lists to which they donated services back in 1996. The non-profit org under which they were organized has pretty much dissolved over the years, but LSoft continues to host several of the lists, some of which are very active.
Charles Clausen
ppml-info.org
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:21:25 -0700, Anita Cohen-Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>In the meantime, if I can get the list back and all the archives, I
>think I need to move it to another host. Does L-Soft host lists?
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