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Perhaps a Discord server in lieu of Google groups? Or everyone
interested in Lua can join fosstodon.org (or another Mastodon
server) and tag posts with #lua that others can follow. Regards – Bhaskar On 12/11/23 18:57, Mouse wrote:
as a sidenote, I'm frankly surprised that google groups doesn't already number among the services google has summarily discontinued.I'm told they sort-of have. Some time ago (March 2009), I was force-subscribed to four Google Groups. Google, of course, ignored my spam reports and continued pushing their stuff at me, even though two of the groups were entirely in an alphabet - never mind language - I couldn't, and can't, read. I then blocked it based on a header signature. Over seven months later, despite my rejecting 100% of their spew, they were still trying - they didn't even have working bounce processing. After I mentioned this to an acquaintance who turned out to be a Google customer in a more traditional sense (ie, buying something other than advertising eyeballs from them), he investigated. He told me Google Groups had been running unstaffed for years. (Listowner, you might want to check into whether that's still true before moving the list.) Something like seventeen months later, I heard that the "issue" had been fixed; apparently their idea of the issue was that people could be force-subscribed to Google Groups lists; the other problems don't seem to have been issues for them. Other problems such as having set it up wrong, something any competent email admin would have known better than, to start with. Such as ignoring spam complaints. Such as completely (as far as I can tell) lacking bounce processing. Such as running an attractive nuisance (unstaffed Groups) with no oversight for years. And that's in addition to all the other offenses Google has inflicted on the net. If Google is still providing Groups, it's because they think they can extract enough value from the list and its subscribers to cover the resources it's costing them. In any case, Google has earned themselves the dubious honour of the hardest email block I know how to implement. No, I will not be participating in any Google-hosted list. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B --
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