The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On 3/7/19 11:30 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> On 3/7/19 5:12 PM, Peter Schober wrote:
> > * David Verdin <address@concealed> [2019-03-07 16:13]:
> > > I have no idea how one does create such organization.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any experience creating and/or running such a thing, I'm too
> > > interested in reading it.
> > Before doing anything here please talk (or have someone from RENATER
> > talk) to Nicole from GEANT about the "Greenhouse" activity (full name
> > and address given on the website below):
> > https://www.geant.org/People/Community_Programme/Special_Interest_Groups/Pages/SIG-Greenhouse.aspx
> > See also https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/SIG+Greenhouse
> > (though much there seems to be out of date)
> >
> > Sympa is already recognised as a project that's important to the
> > communities it originated in (Research and Education Networks)
> > https://wiki.geant.org/display/GREEN/Open+Source+Software+in+NRENs
> > and many other projects have the same background/DNA and hence the
> > same issues and discussions.
> >
> > I note that the question *why* Sympa needed its own servers wasn't
> > really answered so far (or why the Github wiki isn't sufficient).
> > (Now I can certainly imagine reasons why one would not want to depend
> > on Internet Monopolists' services but I don't assume these are
> > universally shared.)
> We would certainly like to host our own mailinglists instead of with Renater, 
> where
> we don't have administrative access. Also the login procedure is far away 
> from user
> friendly.

That seems somewhat silly, and perhaps remediable - given that Sympa has 
different levels of admin access, and, presumably, one or more members 
of the Sympa community administers Renater's installation!

Miles Fidelman




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