On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > Too bad nobody has any control over the mailing-lists. Another > > > reason to consider switching :-) > > > > If someone wants to setup/maintain a (real) alternate mailing list I > > suppose there'd be no objection to that. > > What do you mean by alternate ? Have 2, or just move it ?
Just move it, I guess. > I think it wouldn't be that hard to move it to Savannah and ask > Verio to redirect all e-mails that go to lynx-dev for a year or > so. Sure, those would be moderated by us. And after a year they > could just send back and e-mail about the move. > > But we'd also need the list of current subscribers for lynx-dev > and lynx-dev-contrib. lynx-dev is a majordomo list - I see to recall that its subscriber list is available. > > And what happened to http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lynx/ > ? It's there, but how do we access it ? Whoever started it didn't maintain it. I don't see any particular advantage to creating a project on savannah, but the mailing list seems to need some work. > There's also http://www.freelists.org/ that I use for my > mailing-list, but I don't know if it'd be a good idea to use > it. You never know how long it'll last. The good think is that > doesn't have advertisements like SourceForge, and you have much > more control to administer. > > Anyway, I'm willing to setup it or help doing it, and be one of > the moderators. Yes, lynx-dev-contrib is good, it allows you to > post, but isn't mentioned anywhere. I wonder how many people > e-mail lynx-dev and think are being ignored because Verio > doesn't even send them a message about it. I don't recall anything about lynx-dev-contrib -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
