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GroupServer and HTML Email From: Michael JasonSmith Date: Jul 23 2010 06:42 UTC Categories: GroupServer, OnlineGroups.Net, email, software development

A recent article in Network World made me very glad that GroupServer (and OnlineGroups.Net, by extension) only displays plain-text email messages.1 The problem is this: Fancy formatting in email uses system called HTML. HTML can contain a programming language called JavaScript. JavaScript can do evil. It is very difficult to remove the JavaScript from the [...]

GroupServer 1.0 Beta is Released From: Dan Randow Date: Jul 13 2010 00:15 UTC Categories: Google Groups, GroupServer, Mailing List Manager, Mailman, OnlineGroups.Net, Yahoo! Groups, email, open source, software development

GroupServer is a web-based open source web-based mailing list manager developed by OnlineGroups.Net. If you know OnlineGroups.Net, you’ll know that GroupServer is its engine. For that reason, we’re pretty excited to be able to call GroupServer “1.0?”, and to make it available for free download. We have released GroupServer before, but we try not to [...]

Delete the Emails From: Dan Randow Date: Sep 5 2008 05:46 UTC Categories: GroupServer, OnlineGroups.Net, Yahoo! Groups, email

The other night, I was at dinner with some friends, and some friends of friends. The conversation turned to OnlineGroups.Net. One of the guests I didn’t know so well said “Oh yeah, I use that. I really like it. I just delete the emails.” I was happy of course to hear that she liked our [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Why Fight Email? From: Dan Randow Date: May 19 2008 09:21 UTC Categories: GroupServer, Groups, collaboration, email

There are problems with email as a collaboration tool. The worst is email overload. A lot of email takes a lot of management. Triaging and curating email are especially difficult when the email lacks metadata that enables it to be assessed without opening the email. Even the best email management approaches take effort, and still [...]

 

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