RE: mailing list
The problem it's I can't put everything on my online
account and they (administrator) don't have procmail
or mh...
Whatever, I did my suggestions after seeing so mush
mail be reply two or three times for the same problem
with the same answer. That's good for the reputation
of the mail list but mush of the time, it's because
we try to answer directly to the user without checking
what other people already answered. (I do it myself
more of the time). Results: many answers mainly
identicals to a same problems.
More of that, a news group is more organized. Thread
are follow up and it's easy to jump over some who
don't interested yourself. This will help people to
got an answer more easily and more quickly, and to
free a bit the traffic on this mail list (Debian-users).
About the CGI-news thread... I remember to see one in
a HOWTO contributions page... But where? Sorry, I was
looking and don't find it. To give you an idea... it
looks like a news browser on the web. You can start
a thread, reply to a thread, and adding simple HTML
editing you want. All the work are done by forms and CGI
and a Diggest version of the threads are automaticly archive.
Keeping it simple an people can see it on lynx. But I will
keep the other mail lists (like announce and change) in this
current form. I really that can improves the project.
Thanks and sorry for this long reply,
Fab.
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From: Philippe Troin[SMTP:phil@fifi.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 11:44 AM
To: Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
Cc: debian-user
Subject: Re: mailing list
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:20:41 EDT Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
(ninoles.fabien@ic.gc.ca) wrote:
> Two things I would like to see in the Debian Mailing Lists:
> First... An added [Debian:] tag before the suggest for those
> like me who receive from mush than one list.
Why ? Use procmail or mh or whatever to split your incoming mail.
I've goit a .maildelivery file that I can share with you.
> A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put
> Debian list on news groups? They aren't enought users? I think
> that we got so more users and be more accessible if we put
> almost Debian-Users on news (mostly a moderate one but we can do
> without). I receive near to 50 mails by day just from this list
> and it's not the only one I'm suscribed! News group will help
> to keep track of which mail was already replied and will avoid
> some traceback.
Can you elaborate on that ?
> About other news mecanism, I was thinking about some web-news
> service such the one from O'Really. I'm not really good in doing
> CGI but I can try to do something (or let this to someone else)
> if you're interested.
Where can we see this stuff ?
There's already the debian mailing list archives on the Debian
homepage.
Phil.
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