Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] mailing list migration (was: development flow)

Andrew Lunn
2009-09-19T07:59:34Z

> > I don't have a server that would work for this, but I think it would
> > be nice to find a service that hosts FOSS projects for free, but
> > normally charges for the service. ??That way, no one in the batman
> > project has to worry about servers failing/upgrading/migrating/etc.
> >
> > The first example that comes to mind is XMission because they are my
> > ISP. ??They use Mailman (same as we're using now), so we might even be
> > able to transfer the messages on the current Mailman server to the new
> > one. ??I'm not at all familiar with Mailman, but I'll call them today
> > and see what they say.
> >
> > http://mailman.xmission.com/
> >
> > Jake
> >
>
> I just got off the phone with a sales guy at XMission. He says
> mailing lists are US$3/month. I can cover this.
> How does that sound, Marek? Do you have something else in mind?

What is important is the quality of its spam filtering. We need
something with very high quality, eg like sourceforge, vger, or
sourceware would provide. So i would suggest a provider with a proven
record of hosting open source project mailing lists which are open for
anybody to post to.

Andrew