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Re: google groups and Usenet
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jswensen |
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Re: google groups and Usenet |
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Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:28:15 -0600 |
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I actually use Firefox+Sage to view the mailing lists from gmane as RSS
feeds. I really like the interface. You should try it out.
John
Quoting Colin Ingram <address@hidden>:
I just want to sum up the discussion so far. 1. It seems that there
is some interest in mirroring the mailing lists as news although some
people are happy reading the mailing list as email and they don't see
the point of doing this. Others(me included) see a benefit in
providing many different ways to read the list so every can choose
which one is most convenient for them. Currently you can read the
lists as news through gmane, you can read the lists a email, and you
can access archives through the web or ftp. It was pointed out that
what google adds to this is a fancy UI(which I like and some people
don't care for). It was also noted that Nabble provides something
similar. I would like to note that there is an increasing number of
solutions for reading mailing list as news and searching archives.
Currently I know of gmane, google, and nabble and there will surely
be more. Each of these are slightly different solutions that appeal
to different people. If the octave mailing lists is set up as a
monitored usenet group it would be easy for 3rd parties to offer
their services to whoever wants to use it. I think that this will
increase Octave's visibility and the work of setting up the usenet
only has to be done once. (although the mail to news gateway would
have to be maintained)
2. There is some question about how the usenet group would be
moderated. This seems like a big task and it was suggested that I
take on this role. I think that there must exist some automated
solution for this since I doubt each and every message sent the
debian mailing lists (several thousand a month) is approved manually.
I will look into the feasibility of automated moderation. 3. JWE is
looking to move the mailing list and is calling for a volunteer to
maintain it. Some of us would like to know more about the
requirements for this job.
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