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

[Jim Whartenby]

Jerry
Thanks for the reply!
Silly question; how large can the small size pdf be to get through the Mailman filter?  Instead of an attachment, is placing an image in the body of the text an option?
Regards,
Jim
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.  Murphy 

    On Monday, July 6, 2026 at 09:22:41 AM CDT, JOS K1JOS <k1jos at att.net> wrote:   

 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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