[Insight-developers] Fwd: Google Groups / Nabble / Xennob comparison charts

[Matthew McCormick (thewtex)]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:51 AM, kent williams
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu>wrote:

> Are we considering moving the ITK mailing list to one of those group hosts?
>
> My experience has been that Google Groups works well day to day, with much
> less administration time hands on than running a mailing list or forum.
>  The
> only reason not to go with Google is privacy concerns, and since we're
> conducting our business as openly as possible it's a non-issue.
>

For what it is worth, I have heard that Google Groups has had a lot of spam
problems.  The Google Groups I am member of have nice features, but they are
moderated.


>
> You can make reading entries members-only and require admin approval for
> subscriptions, which would mirror the situation now.  And it's fairly easy
> to export a subscriber list, then have your google group bulk-invite them.
>
> I'm not that enamored of forums, though they seem to have their proponents.
> Google Groups is a sort of middle way -- you can go to the group page and
> navigate and search it the same way you would with a forum, while still
> having the option of dealing with it strictly via e-mail.
>
> I've had dealings with the Nabble, and was frustated with how that works.
> The Nabble people seemed to have a hard time with the idea of only list
> subscribers being able to post to a list, and thought they were entitled to
> archive the mailing list I was administering, even when we explicitly told
> them we didn't want them to.
>
>
> On 7/6/10 4:26 PM, "Stephen Aylward" <stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Patrick Cheng <cheng at isis.georgetown.edu>
> > Date: Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM
> > Subject: Google Groups / Nabble / Xennob  comparison charts
> > To: "Stephen R. Aylward" <Stephen.Aylward at kitware.com>, millerjv at ge.com
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.forum-software.org/forum-comparator/google-groups-vs-nabble-vs-xenn
> > obb
> >
> >
>
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