Future of cctalk/cctech

[Doug Jackson]

I gave up on hosting my own email years ago when I was the recipient of
tens of thousands of spam messages per day, both to this and my business
email address.  I now simply use gmail to handle email - seems like the G
beast has seen every bit of spam before, so the spam transfer rate is
approximating zero.

All of the old mailing lists I use are on groups.io -   I actually don't
log into their platform, instead they send me updates as messages.  These
often contain attachments, which don't bother me, as its using google mail
storage to store, and unless its interesting, I don't bother copying it
into my world.  That way, complete disk images can be sent and I don't mind.

Using a glass screen VDU with a mouse, means that the sparse, and expensive
to obtain paper for the TTY is not adversely used when somebody top or
bottom or sideways posts.   And I can even catch up on email while I am
using my phone in the bus.

If we do implement attachments that are limited to one SSDD 8" disk, can
there please be some technological way of chaining disk 'parts' to allow
larger attachments to be transmitted?

Kindest regards,

Doug Jackson

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:49 AM ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
> We use groups,io for the tom swift discussion group real handy to post
> photos, files and etc..
> On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Chris Hanson via cctalk <
> cmhanson at eschatologist.net; cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 1:50 AM, Tor Arntsen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >>>> There is also groups.io, and it has some very nice features compared
> to
> >
> > Please please, no groups of any kinds. They're all horrible to use.
>
> Do you mean "web forum" where you say "groups?"
>
> > A
> > genuine mailing list like this is infinitively easier to keep track of
> > and read at leisure. Can't stand groups.io.
>
> I've found the groups.io <http://groups.io/> mailing list mode to be
> perfectly reasonable for a number of groups I'm a part of. And it has a
> forum-like front end for people who insist on doing everything through a
> web page.
>
>   -- Chris
>