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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, C Bergström <cbergstrom@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Sorry to shoot and run, but I think you're trying to tackle this |
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> problem in the wrong way. The problem isn't to drop the mail. The |
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> solution is to change email hosting providers. As a non-profit I |
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> believe Google hosted apps would be an option (free). |
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In general we try to stick to our social contract, and that means |
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trying to avoid depending on proprietary technologies such as gmail. |
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Now, I could see just using a FOSS-based IMAP/SMTP/POP provider, |
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perhaps which allows things like forwarding and such, which allows us |
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to have a copy of all our configuration and such in case we want to |
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migrate. I'm not super-familiar with the wordpress.com model but |
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something like that also seems reasonable - we leverage donations of |
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hosting services but we aren't bound to anything proprietary and have |
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the ability to migrate off. |
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I'd REALLY like to see a FOSS alternative to Gmail (a good one, that |
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is), and ditto for Google docs (or whatever the latest branding for |
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that is). There is nothing magical about cloud-based services any more |
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than there is anything magical about letting somebody else host your |
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website. The key is to ensure that the technologies are open so that |
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you aren't bound to a single provider. |
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Rich |