Subj : Re: Long Day
To   : boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Jan 25 2022 08:15:12

  Re: Re: Long Day
  By: boraxman to Arelor on Tue Jan 25 2022 11:07 pm

 > Is the server self contained on your own hardware?  I'm not too worried about using
 > services hosted elsewhere, but Big Tech and the way they carry on has left a bad ta
 > in my mouth.  There are many good companies that don't act this way though.

All the alternatives I have mentioned are self-hostable.

A forum such as Flux BB you could host in your own wer server. If you don't like
FLuxBB then you have many other forum packages to pick from. Simple Machines, PHPBB...
the list is endless.

A mailing list is doable with your own server and it is not that hard to pull off. You
may ask the IRCNow guys how did they deployed theirs :-) Afaik they just used
OpenSMTPD (which is standard in OpenBSD) and a simple C program for mailing list
management. It is very cool.

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