Re: [UG-ADMINS] Using Google Groups for user group mailing lists?

We moved from Yahoo! groups to SourceForge a long time ago. Still keep the Yahoo! groups "alive" with an occasional "ping" to suck people in. :-) Yahoo was just too annoying all around, but the ads were the final straw. On Thu, April 9, 2009 2:17 pm, D. Keith Casey Jr. wrote: > Ben Ramsey wrote: >> What do you use for your mailing lists? Why? If you've moved your >> lists >> to something like Google Groups, why did you do so, and what did you >> move away from? > > We (DCPHP - > http://groups.google.com/group/washington-dcphp-group ) > switched from Mailman (hosted by Tux.org, the local non-profit for the > LUGs) to Google Groups for two reasons: > > * Search > * Findability > > Having a good search for the archives was nice, but being findable by > the larger internet is more important. If people have ego/keyword > searches set up, public Google Groups will be picked up, so we've seen > a > good deal of "I happened to find you guys" sort of traffic. > > In the month since the switch, the subscriber count shrunk by about > 40% > but the list traffic has almost doubled. And after looking at the > missing 40%, most of them were recruiters not received messages > anyway. > > My 0.02, > keith > > -- > D. Keith Casey, Jr. > CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC > http://CaseySoftware.com > > -- > Usergroup Coordination Mailing List (http://ug.php.net) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people ask for gifts here. I just want you to buy an Indie CD for yourself: http://cdbaby.com/search/from/lynch