Subscribe gmane to this list?
Ben Rubinstein
benr_mc at cogapp.com
Tue Feb 15 09:22:33 EST 2005
I've recently come across Gmane, an interesting service that attempts to
make mailing lists more usefully accessible.
It gives a variety of nice interfaces to the list, including two web
variants (both of them to my taste substantially better than Mailman
provides), news reader, and RSS; and search functionality that constitutes a
definite improvement over using google with site.
For an example, see
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.culture.cars.volkswagen.diesel
It also potentially allows posting through the web interface, which I
personally would find helpful.
More information here:
http://gmane.org/about.php
http://gmane.org/faq.php
http://gmane.org/features.php
I'd propose that this list would be subscribed with posting allowed for list
members only, and with email addresses encrypted.
Downsides to doing this:
- the list is fractionally more public than it is now. Postings to this
list are already archived, and discoverable via Google; but now there will
be two sites on which such postings may be found; and the list itself will
now be in another index, in addition to the one in which it can be found
from the runrev site. So I don't think that is very significant.
- er?
Upsides:
- no change to anything existing
- no additional effort from RunRev
- several valuable new interfaces
- (tiny) additional exposure for Revolution (there are a preponderance
of developer related lists on the service, and you can search across them)
If this list wasn't already archived on a publicly accessible web site, then
I'd think twice. But as it is, I can't see any real downside to doing this.
But of course, I wouldn't want to do it if the list, or RunRev, would prefer
not.
Comments?
Ben Rubinstein | Email: benr_mc at cogapp.com
Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600
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