Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> <quote who="Christoph Berg" date="Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:08:58PM +0200">
> > I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog
> > postings from planet.debian.org.
> > 
> > The main reason is that after postings expire on the planet website,
> > it's very hard to find old postings if you cannot remember who wrote
> > it. Think of "there was some nice sh script snippet" or "someone
> > pointed to that great package". Now you have to manually browse all
> > feeds or hope for google. Having a regular list archive on
> > lists.debian.org would solve this.
> > 
> > Joey has already set up a list for that privately, but it is not
> > archived publically. Providing that service from lists.debian.org
> > would recognize the importance of planet.debian.org to Debian
> > culture.
> 
> Is this private list available for other people to subscribe to? At
> the very least, can we document this?
> 
> It sounds like a number of people would be happier with with this both
> as an unofficial service and a non-public archived list. If Joey is
> not happy with running this, I'm happy to set up the rss2email program
> on a list at my own site. 

Feel free to document this.  The list is
ticker-planetdebian@lists.infodrom.org and is run by
smartlist/majorsmart similar to lists.debian.org.

I started it to be able to follow Planet Debian on my own but got
requests from some friends to read the feed as well.

I seconds Myon's proposal to have an official list for the Planet
Debian aggregation.

Regards,

	Joey

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