[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge.net on Google Apps

[Jeff Tchang]

Sorry about that Jake...typo.

I actually think Google Apps may not be a good fit for Noisebridge but I
decided to bring it up on the public list anyway.

-Jeff

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net>wrote:

> 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
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