Re: [Evolution] Let's unite the power of all mailing list subscribers who are affected by GNOME's ruling

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 14:11 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list
wrote:
> Dnia 24.10.2022 o godz. 12:49:00 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze:
> > I briefly used Google Groups a long time ago, though I think it has
> > changed since then. They do offer a fairly broad range of
> > facilities,
> > including email access, admin and moderator roles, and the focus on
> > a
> > specific topic (Evo), but:
> >
> > * No Reply To List (and I presume no proper List headers, though I
> > haven't checked). Possibly a minor point for some.
>
> I participate in a few lists hosted on Google Groups. Usually the
> Reply-To:
> header is set to the list address, so there is no problem with
> replying to
> the list. I also have checked now last email that I received from a
> Google
> Groups hosted list and I see that there are List-ID, List-Post, List-
> Help,
> List-Archive and List-Unsubscribe headers.

That's good to know.

> > * Members need a Google account to sign up. I anticipate that this
> > would not please some people.
>
> On the lists I'm subscribed to there are quite a lot of people who
> don't
> have a Google account. Maybe this changed recently.

I'm going by what the online Help says, but it may not be up to date.

> While it seems to be actually required to log in to Google to
> subscribe to a
> group via Google Groups web interface, I am pretty sure a group admin
> can
> still subscribe anyone, even without a Google account, because I do
> this all
> the time on one of the lists where subscription is by admin only.

It would be quite burdensome to require admin approval for signing up,
so I'd hope this could be done directly by the users as at present. I'd
also hope that membership lists could be imported from Mailman.

> I'm not sure if the option to subscribe yourself by email (without
> going to
> web interface) still works. If yes, then it may be the way to
> subscribe
> without a Google account.
>
> > * The group address is directly associated with googlemail.com,
>
> You mean googlegroups.com, not googlemail.com ?

Yes, I think so. PEBKAC.

poc