[Gretl-devel] future of gretl mailing lists

For over 12 years Wake Forest University has hosted the gretl-devel and gretl-users lists, using GNU Mailman. I'm now told that they're going to discontinue Mailman support; we have about 6 weeks to run before they pull the plug. Their proposed alternative is Google Groups (GG), and they've set up groups to shadow gretl-devel, gretl-users and gretl-announce. (I've been emphatic that we need to preserve the existing archives, and I'm pretty confident that'll happen OK.) So we could migrate to GG with (I hope) little difficulty. But maybe we want to consider alternatives. I have very little experience with GG so I don't have a sense of how good a replacement they would provide. One alternative would be to use the Sourceforge mailing list apparatus, but I wouldn't favour that; I like many things about SF but IMO their mailing list interface really sucks. And then we've talked about moving to a "forum" approach in the past; I guess that should be considered too. Personally I think a forum of some sort might be a good replacement for the current gretl-users, but I have a strong preference for a "mailing list" format for devel purposes. Thoughts? Allin