All blog posts in December 1999

Why We Built GroupServer From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 24 2008 05:34 UTC Categories: open source, Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups, sofware development, OnlineGroups.Net, GroupServer, collaboration, email, Groups

If I had to sum up software development in one word, it would be “don’t”. When you know a bit about what’s possible, it is easy to be seduced by the notion that custom software could solve all your problems. Your business is unique of course, and so your requirements are unique. It seemed so […]

GroupServer: The Open Source Software Behind OnlineGroups.Net From: Richard Date: Jun 17 2008 03:13 UTC Categories: release, OnlineGroups.Net, collaboration, GroupServer

Finally this week (well, last week, this post and the release announcement have only just caught up) OnlineGroups.Net produced a new alpha release of GroupServer 1.0 entitled “Cream Freeze at the Beach”. Why did we do it? Or rather, why are we continuing to do it? Was it our love for Open Source Software (OSS), like […]

Email: Consider Your Audience From: Dan Randow Date: Jun 7 2008 02:00 UTC Categories: OnlineGroups.Net, email, collaboration, GroupServer

In Why Fight Email?, I explained how OnlineGroups.Net makes email useful for group collaboration. Unfortunately, however, even though OnlineGroups.Net inherently adds useful metadata to email, it does not provide immunity from the GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) effect. If people send bad email, people receive bad email. Receiving bad email causes email overload. Inbox-management tools […]

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