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Not that I want to take sides here at all, but just for clarification purposes, I'll say that Google Groups are mailing lists at their core, they're indeed email based. The web frontend is just another interface.
PS. Hi there people, yes, I'm new. I've got an introductory email in my TO-DO list, coming soon :) > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:00:03 +0200 > From: olav vitters nl > To: alexis diavatis gmail com > Subject: Re: Any chance to move your MLs to Google Groups? > CC: marketing-list gnome org > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:51:27PM +0300, alex diavatis wrote: > > *Easy of Use* > > Nothing to say here, you all have used Google Groups(GG) :) > > One thing only is the good searching inside the GG and how easily you can > > follow, respond, star a subject etc etc > > Google groups is only webbased right? Reading 100+ emails/day at the > moment takes no time at all. All webbased things are really slow in > comparison. > The workflow of anything web based is just totally different than email > based. > > There are various web frontends already for mailing list. The most > popular one is gmane, see http://gmane.org/ > > > It would still be cool to more easily be able to participate. > > > Note that another factor is the freedom. Google groups change change at > the will of Google. Furthermore the code behind it is not open (we > cannot change it). That is usually a no go. > > -- > Regards, > Olav > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list gnome org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list |