Ask HN: What are the good alternatives to Google Groups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1036733

by niyazpk • 17 years ago

14 11 17 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

That is pretty much it. Any suggestions?

vorador• 17 years ago

I didn't try http://librelist.com/ but I've heard good from it.

pieter• 17 years ago

I've been looking for one too. The Google Groups interface is really bad, Google Groups is riddled with spam and Google seems to make no effort to do anything about it.

I've looked at librelist.com, which seems OK, but they subscribe you as soon as you send an email to a list, which makes it useless, at least for me (I don't want people to get subscribed to all mail as soon as they send a single post; it also discourages cross-list postings).

One of the best options might be to host your own mailing list using something like mailman and adding a frontend with something like Nabble.

oscardelben• 17 years ago

I think Zed Shaw is working on an alternative but I don't remember the name

abyssknight• 17 years ago

Librelist. I'd recommend to the OP that he/she pass on any criticism of Google Groups on to Zed. Looks like that project is ready to be the GG killer. :)

jarsj• 17 years ago

I wish google groups had an API and then I would love it.

nemoniac• 17 years ago

Does nobody remember Usenet any more?

moe• 17 years ago

Just want to second that google groups is a pain, and it's a shame that everyone seems to be using it nowadays (albeit for understandable reasons).

My pet peeve is their ignorance of traditional mailing list behaviour in terms of echo'ing back your own posts to you. Google Groups doesn't do it, every other mailing list software in existence does it. Which means users who happen to not use GMail as their client (yes, they do exist) have to deal with both variants - a small but constant nuisance.

aravindhanv• 17 years ago

Hi, This is not a new crib. Another recent complaint is here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905520, and I responded to that asking him to try Zoho Discussions (http://discussions.zoho.com). Though not a mail listing software, it is fairly advanced and is capable of handling posting through emails too.

Regards

Dhan

PS: I work for Zoho and manage the Zoho Discussions product

nate• 17 years ago

If you need a private group, we built http://tgethr.com to be an alternative for us to use instead of a private Google group. We have things like code formatting

http://support.tgethr.com/faqs/how-to/how-do-i-use-code-form...

Integration to services like bug trackers (unfuddle) and dropbox.

kbob• 17 years ago

Mailman. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

snitko• 17 years ago

You should give ReSubj a try: http://resubj.com

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