[R-390] Survey to Consider Moving R-390 Mail List to Groups.IO

[JOS K1JOS]

Hi Jim,

Attachments are unfortunately unpredictably archived.   With https://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/r-390/  small sized pdfs can be found usually by a highlighted link below the message but larger pdfs and most images are scrubbed by Mailman's policies.

The other searchable archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/r-390@mailman.qth.net/  also scrubs off all attachments.

This was a major reason cited for the request to move to Groups.io.  As the experts 'age-out', we are left with an incredibly valuable, detailed database but without pictures or attachments.  

Jerry NY2KW




From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Jim Whartenby via R-390
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2026 3:12 PM
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Survey to Consider Moving R-390 Mail List to Groups.IO

Jerry
I understand your position, you are being more then fair.  

Mailman is finicky in that it does not like to maintain the format I used when I post.  I use DuckDuckGo but this might be happening with anything other then ASCII since Mailman is quite old, it was released in 1999.  I can defeat the formatting issue by doing a double line return but I often forget that I'm posting to a Mailman server.

I doubt that anyone on this list is still using dial-up or are bandwidth limited so it would be nice to allow attachments and whatever else that would make posting here much easier and informative. Thoughts?

Jim
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.  Murphy 

    On Sunday, July 5, 2026 at 09:08:21 AM CDT, JOS K1JOS via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:   

 Happy 250th Year Celebration of our Independence Day!  Hope you all had a great day.  My family was headed to West Point yesterday  for the annual fireworks but T-storms wiped that out. 

 

It's been a bit more than 2 weeks after my initial mail went out to the group.  Among 500+ members, I received only 53 replies.  While 90% were favorable to moving to Groups.IO, many of these replies sounded like it made no difference if we stayed or moved.  Given the very small overall turnout, I do not feel comfortable taking this decision, so the mail server will remain as is.  I hope those who requested the move will understand my actions.

 

Thanks to all who replied and thanks for letting me take up the bandwidth.

 

Jerry NY2KW

 

From: JOS K1JOS <k1jos at att.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2026 7:34 PM
To: 'R-390 at mailman.qth.net' <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>; 'k1jos at att.net'
<k1jos at att.net>
Subject: Survey to Consider Moving R-390 Mail List to Groups.IO

 

There has been a proposal to move our mailing list to Groups.io due to inconsistent mail/digest deliveries.  Groups.io has a very user friendly interface, will send you email updates or digests plus it has a robust searchable archive of messages and files.  The hosting fee is ~ $250/year.
If we can establish a minimum interest among the current 500+ r-390 at milman.qth.net <mailto:r-390 at milman.qth.net>  members we can move forward.

 

All comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc are welcome.

 

Those who have already responded under the previous 'TEST' subject header need not reply again.

 

Link to Groups.io :  https://groups.io/

 

Thanks to all !

 

Jerry NY2KW (K1JOS) R-390 mail list administrator

 

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