[wplug-plan] hosted member email

[James O'Kane]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:

> One practical concern I have is that people might get @wplug.org
> and @members.wplug.org addresses confused (e.g., people might
> send mailing list traffic to wplug at members.wplug.org).  This
> shouldn't be too much of a problem if the difference is
> adequately documented somewhere on our web site.

There are two approaches to this. One is to provide documentation and make 
people send to the correct address. I prefer this because it doesn't lock 
us into supporting the next idea. We could also create forwarding aliases. 
I don't think these would count against our limit.

> Other than that, it seems like a neat idea.  Since there is a
> limited number, maybe they could be auctioned to the highest
> bidder to raise funds for the treasury?  (Assuming Google's TOS
> don't prohibit that.)

I'm not sure about the TOS. They do have a link where you can request more 
accounts. I think google is trying to feel out how big of a demand there 
is for this. It's easier to limit up front than to cut back later.
If they say no, we can point out to them that at least two googlers came 
from wplug.

> This might be a good item to bring up at the membership meeting
> tomorrow.  If we don't have enough information to actually make
> a decision then, it could always be referred to a committee.

If it's important, I can be on speaker phone at the meeting, assuming 
there are facilities on your end to do it.
Otherwise, someone else will need to bring this to the agenda.

-james