Mailing list hosting for free software

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Yosef,

Happy Second Passover, and Mimoona.

On Monday 05 Apr 2010 16:48:27 Yosef Meller wrote:
> Hag Sameach.
> 
> I'm about to release some code of mine which I would like to turn into
> an active project, so I'm setting it up for community work. The code is
> hosted at GitHub, and for the website I use the GitHub Pages feature.
> What I still need to set up before announcing the project is a mailing
> list.
> 
> I can use Google Groups, of course, but I'm not sure it offers
> everything that Mailman offers. On the other hand, I don't have a budget
> for paid hosting. So I thought I's ask here: what would you recommend
> for mailing list hosting?
> 

Well, you can always use http://sourceforge.net/ , 
http://developer.berlios.de/ etc. I'm using berlios.de for most of my open-
source projects (still mostly Subversion), and while I'm mostly happy they 
have a tendency to keep a lot of service software  out-of-date - Subversion is 
at version 1.2.x and I think mailman there is old too. SourceForge should be 
better but on the other hand tends to be much less responsive, especially from 
Israel (as berlios.de is located in Germany.).

You may be able to register a project there while admitting you are going to 
use github. SF and Berlios also give you at least one git repository per 
project which you can use as well or instead of github.

Thinking about it, http://hexten.net/ (Andy Armstrong's domain) hosts various 
FOSS-related mailman mailing lists and MediaWikis (including some Israeli 
ones) and he may agree to host you (tell him I referred you to him and CC me 
on the message). 

There's also Yahoo Groups which is qmail and ezmlm-based (with a web 
interface) which while having gone out of fashion lately, is still decent. 
I've been using it for Freecell Solver (see:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/ ) because I didn't bother 
waiting for the berlios.de mailing list to be set up (stupid delays), and it's 
not too bad.

These are the things off the top of my head.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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