I'm sure many of us on this mailing list are familiar with Slashdot, and
that the code behind it is open-source (known as Slashcode).
For those of us who aren't, Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) is a news
website which covers news mainly in the interest of the Open Source
community. About 10 of the latest news items are posted on the front
page, and each has a related discussion board automatically set up.
I propose that someone could implement and host our mailing list on this
website... This could allow for people to browse through threads
easily, and allow people to catch up easily when joining for the first
time, or coming back from vacation.
The obvious problem to me is that the creation of new threads is
normally done manually, with only the most interesting/serious topics
being posted. We won't be having hundreds of posts every day, but
somebody (or some group of us) will have to make sure that whenever
anybody requests a post, that it gets posted after meeting some
criteria...
In my opinion, the quality of some of the discussions on this mailing
list should be available to the public without having to subscribe to
the mailing list. And this type of system will allow anonymous people
to post, maybe with valid points...
Just my two cents...
Ryan McGarry
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