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Spring is trying to arrive

@Hellybootwader right at the other end of the island, gulf stream doing its thing... it'll get up north soon, promise, I was pretty unsure it'd ever arrive here tbh

@amberfirefly it’s still feeling pretty wintery here. No sign of rhubarb yet.

@wendy I thought it was here too, took me by surprise! Normally they don't come until the nights are over 10C and the days have that sort of soft feeling, still quite bitter here. They've arrived only about 10 days later than the last 2 years.

@amberfirefly
We just started a 'help the amfibians migrate' group in my neck of the wood (a villag'y corner of Brussels)
Techwise, trying everyone to move to Signal, using Framadate, and with a Mailman
(－‸ლ) Mailinglist.
For the moment it's still freezing at night. We have a kind of stressy and giddy anticipation! When will they come?

@wendy sounds fab - here in the UK we have something called 'toads on roads', I even have a badge somewhere with a toad in one of those warning triangle road signs :) Good luck with the attempts to move people over to better comms technology, I've had no luck with that in the past but am glad people still try!! How do you find Mailman (yes, bad name) btw, we are looking to move mailing lists...

@amberfirefly We're also part of a bigger organisation for toad crossings, being Belgium even two, one per language (Natagora (French) & Natuurpunt (Dutch)) >>>
Mailman, I think, technically does the job, with respect for security and all, but configuring it and making templates is excrutiatingly hard and unuserfriendly.
It took me ages to make this subscription page: https://chahut.domainepublic.net/mailman3/postorius/lists/sos_amfibies_noh.lists.collectifs.net/
There's so much superfluous info, lay-out - pfffft - meh! And I only wanted one frog. Subscription confirmation is by answering a dubious looking mail.. Config files need dictionaries and are full of info-holes. Anyway, I think it's clear.
~~ Keila looks very promising, but I don't know how close or far they are from 1.0 >> @keila ?
~~ framasoft has Sympa installed > https://framagroupes.org/ > you can give it a spin on the framagroups site ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympa )

End conclusion, I used mailman because we with Constant work with Tactic/domainepublic.net and that's what they have installed. But enthousiasm is -20
As I was exploring all of this just two days ago >> here's the extended report ! Good luck!

@wendy oh wow thank you - sounds a bit much for me at the moment, with... life... might keep look out for simpler solutions to the minor issue I have with our current setup :) I think 'and I only wanted one frog' might be a new saying for anything frustrating.

@wendy @amberfirefly But if you ever need any help setting up a newsletter, feel free to reach out