From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Idea: mailman service (free for FOSS projects) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:23:36 +0000 Message-ID: <20170418102336.GA19486@mail.thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53040) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0QIg-0006Nk-QI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 06:23:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0QIc-0008GL-RS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 06:23:58 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:41851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0QIc-0008EP-Lt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 06:23:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel Hi all, I am looking for mailman hosting for a bunch of mailing lists. There are commercial hosters but they usually charge per list and you get no access to the host itself. Mailman hosting is non-trivial, you need a chain of tools and (in)sane handling of SPAM. Also the setup needs to be secure and capable of updates. I have some experience and ideas here, but it is a bit much to do on my own. I am thinking in this age of VPS' we could create a deployable Guix instance which people can roll out by themselves with some guarantee that it is safe and secure. There are also organisations willing to fork out some money to outsource their mailing lists. Basically a markup for running software on top of a running VPS (or maybe our own array of pi servers ;) Since we are the masters of deployment anyone interested building up a little business this way? After mailman there could be git hosting, etc. We can create FOSS solutions which do not depend on single providers, an answer to people using Google Groups now, or github. Pj.