What's a good alternative? The spam problems in Google Groups totally suck, especially for very active groups, but it's a familiar system, so even non-techies can sign up and post fairly easily.
Is Yahoo groups even worse?
Is Yahoo groups even worse?
I'd kinda like to see either the Groups team fix the problems or some startup come up and really own that space.
They have switched their own support forums from Google Groups to a much more usable classical forum : http://www.google.com/support/forum
Google Groups was such a mess, I never understood what was really going on.
It could even be freemium with free access to public groups involved in open source projects. Maybe even some nice integration with whatever seems logical.