* Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> [071206 13:03]: > That is great that a new list got born! I wondered though why such lists > are not served directly by lists.debian.org. This would prevent > unexpected death of the mailing list as long as Debian exists. > > I filed a bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454642 > > and per http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list > "it would be very much appreciated if several other people interested in > the new list would send a mail to the bug, in order to record their > interest." A couple reasons why I'm not hot on doing that: . The Debian mailing lists are public forums. I can imagine people wanting to convey personal data on this list that they do not want to be archived/indexed for the world to see. For example if I were to invite everyone over to my place for a party, I'm going to think twice about sending the address and phone number to a public list. . This list is setup and running finally, after various machinations to resolve the problems. I had looked through the last month+ of available archives in the previous list to look for addresses to send a CC list around asking for ideas of where to host the list. Rachael volunteered and the only other suggestion was Google Groups. . This list is actually hosted and administered by someone located in NY . I looked at lists.debian.org to see if there were any other social lists and didn't find any. . Your bug #454642 is for dug-nyc, aka Debian Users Group, which serves a different purpose of group than a social list, which this is. That said, I think raising the profile of the list so other interested Debian socialites can find it is a worthy goal and I think finding ways to do that makes a lot of sense (wiki.debian.org comes to mind). Micah
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