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On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 08:48:03AM +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 02:21, William Ahern <william@25thandclement.com> wrote:
> 
> > The basic thing you need for a community (e.g., for Lua), is a mailing-list.
> > Unfortunately, Mailman is a giant PITA to administer, and it's pretty much
> > the only game in town.
> 
> What is wrong with Google Groups?
> 

I'm subscribed to over half a dozen Usenet newsgroups. At one point the spam
from Google Groups users--bots, actually--was so intolerable that I had to
blacklist any post from Google Groups.

But if spam is less of a problem on regular Google Groups, I guess there's
nothing wrong with it, as third party services go.