Re: Ethical and inexpensive mailing list service?

[Ali Reza Hayati]

Hello buddy.

I recommend Riseup lists. It's free and is committed to free software 
movement. I don't see any requirement for being an activist.

You can also disable archiving emails by contacting them, if you want 
the history to be private. You can also moderate who can subscribe.

On 13/06/2021 16:48, Jorge P. de Morais Neto via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
> Hi.  I am part of a few Google Groups mailing lists and I would like to
> move further away from G$$gle.  Do you recommend an inexpensive (note
> that the Brazilian Real is very undervalued against the US Dollar) and
> ethical (privacy and software freedom) mailing list service?
>
> I know about sourcehut lists, but they forbid emails containing HTML
> parts; I much prefer plain text myself, but I bet many of my colleagues
> and friends will refuse to use a mailing list that forbids HTML.
>
> I know about groups.io; its privacy policy seems acceptable, and I can
> perform many operations in it without proprietary JavaScript, but it has
> significant downsides:
>
> 1. The gratis plan has a limit of 100 members per list, and the paid
>     plans are too expensive in Brazilian reais.
> 2. It does not commit itself to software freedom, so at any moment it
>     could start requiring proprietary JavaScript for important
>     operations.  I don't want to have to frequently change mailing list
>     provider.
>    
> So, despite the shortcomings, do you recommend I move to groups.io (at
> least for small lists that fit the gratis plan)?  Do you know a better
> option?
>
> Regards

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Ali Reza Hayati (https://alirezahayati.com)
Free culture activist and privacy advocate

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