[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge.net on Google Apps

Leif Ryge leif at synthesize.us
Thu Dec 23 00:49:30 UTC 2010


On 12/22/2010 04:31 PM, Jeff Tchang wrote:
> I had a brief discussion with Jacon and Andy over e-mail and the
> possibility of having noisebridge.net <http://noisebridge.net> use
> Google Apps. Right now our mail is being handled internally by
> noisebridge.net <http://noisebridge.net/>. (I am not entirely sure which
> box that is... the IP as resolved externally is 209.237.247.66...is this
> pony?).
>
> Mail is not stored and the box only does does mail forwarding. No mail
> is kept on the system.
>
> The advantage I see of using a hosted service is the ease of
> administration and being able to easily dole out @noisebridge.net
> <http://noisebridge.net> email accounts to anyone that wants them. Of
> course we can do this today but in my opinion it is a lot easier to
> setup in Google Apps new email accounts than it is to configure the mail
> forwarding.
>
> There are a ton of reasons why we wouldn't want to do this including
> privacy/security concerns and the support being handled by a 3rd party.
> However Google does offer professional Google Apps for non profits for
> up to 3000 accounts for free (which is great).
>
> -Jeff

Google's free-for-non-profit services are not really free; they are an 
exchange of value: they offer "free" service and, in return, the 
non-profits who rely on them give Google their endorsement.

I prefer that we do not engage in this type of activity.

Also, currently no individuals have @noisebridge.net email addresses, 
and I don't see any reason why anybody should.

~leif



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