[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge.net on Google Apps

[Jacob Appelbaum]

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 use Google Apps. Right now our mail is being
> handled internally by 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 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).
> 

It's Jacob or Jake - not Jacon...

I like Google and I think Google Apps is a great thing some of the time.

With that said - Thanks but no thanks.

We run our own mail system because it's required for the things we
currently host - such as the wiki and mailing lists. We don't currently
and haven't really ever offered email addresses because it's a giant
nightmare for any number of reasons. One of which is that it is a
possible list of users that will be given away without our consent.
Another of which is that it's hard to experiment without having to run
around a bunch of google systems.

Also, in the end, we're hackers. It's not hard to run a mail server for
the reasons we put one up in the first place: we needed it!

All the best,
Jake