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<p>I would appreciate your input on a decision I need to make. My
current web hosting provider has included mailing list hosting for
many years, but they will cease providing this feature on July 21.
Given this, I think I am going to move the mailing lists to a new
service of some kind. I am committed to continuing to provide a
discussion service to the modeling community as long as it is
useful. That said, the frequency of postings is shrinking. </p>
<p>Years ago, we discussed a number of different options, and I
believe they included</p>
<ul>
<li>New mailing list hosting (Mailman 3, Google groups, groups.io)</li>
<li>A new web-based forum (Discourse, Flarum, phpBB, Reddit)</li>
<li>Shutting down and encouraging the use of Unmethours, existing
Slack, or existing Discord channels</li>
</ul>
<p>You can be assured that whatever change is made, I will try to
make it in the best interests of the modeling community. In
addition, I am committed to preserving the archive of emails.</p>
<p>I also wonder if some new mailing lists (or forum topics) would
be appropriate and I would be glad to start those if we can form
core group of users for each. Please let me know if you have any
ideas.</p>
<p>If you would like to help guide this decision, please let me know
what you think.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Jason</p>
<p>(apologies for the cross-posting)</p>
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Jason Glazer, P.E., BEMP, GARD Analytics, ASHRAE 209 chair
Admin for onebuilding.org building performance mailing lists
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