When I bought my M15 I had no idea what a great online commmunity I was joining. There are a ton of great Montgomery resources- this list and its mailman archives, the Facebook site, the www.msog.org website and www.msogphotosite.com- and Bob's old www.montgomeryboats.com is sitting on a great url even though I understand he's no longer running the business (or was it just the M15 molds that are gone?). I've learned a ton from all of these and would hate to see them lost to the netherworld of the old web. I'm moderately tech savy and glad to work with others to figure out how we might consolidate and make accessible all these resources. I know FB has become the go to place, but I have zero trust in the longevity of a Facebook archive (and have my frustrations w Facebook- the Montgomery group is actually one of the few things that keeps me coming back). So anyone that wants to chat re how we could pull together all that info in a semi-automate way, let me know! Now back to trying to convince my wife the Wrinkleboat gathering is worth all the driving! Alex Conley On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 4:20 PM William Campion via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Group,
My $0.02 worth..... If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!! It’s that simple.
~Skip <Sent from my iPhone>
On Dec 31, 2019, at 4:18 PM, Dave Scobie <scoobscobie@gmail.com> wrote:
Rusty and others:
Groups.io does essentially the same service as what we currently have through mailman software on xmission. the groups.io interface is nicer when visiting the groups www-site..
i don't know how much data (ie archives size) the email group has. over 1GB means minimum charge of $220/year for storage on groups.io.
migrating the members is a challenge. my experience is a group hostingand/or software change results in significant loss in group membership - like 85-90% for the i've taken part in a 'move'!!!
i also hate the idea of loosing the archives (though the recent data isn't currently being saved as I understand, only the really old stuff has been retained). i don't know if groups.io can transition anything in the mailman database. based on the yahoo.groups changes these last few months at minimum the charge will be $220.
the list isn't heavily used. the participation rate has really fallen off since about 2014/15. most of the activity is on the group site on Facebook (link - https://www.facebook.com/groups/330782353662726/ )
thoughts from the members?
:: Dave Scobie :: SV SWALLOW - https://sv-swallow.com :: Montgomery 6'8" #650 :: Truck camper - https://truckpopupcamper.wordpress.com/ :: Ramblings - https://scoobsramblings.wordpress.com/ :: former M17 owner #375 SWEET PEA - https://m17-375.com/ <http://www.m17-375.webs.com/> :: former M15 owner #288 - http://www.freewebs.com/m15-name-scred
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:06 AM Rusty Knorr via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
You should be using the groups io site instead of this!
www.rustyknorr.weebly.com