From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Sep  9 13:29:36 2005
Subject: Re: google groups and Usenet
From: jswensen at intergate dot com
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Fri,  9 Sep 2005 12:28:15 -0600

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 <octave at charter dot net>:

> 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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