Hi Geoff, Our main Nabble forum was set up by an OB user (Ted Cui) and I've finally arranged to take over the admin (with his blessing). There were some problems where users were posting to the forum at the top-level, and it wasn't showing up on any of the mailing lists.
Anyway, I've sorted that out, but I thought it might be useful to think about making more use of Nabble in general. There are a couple of things we can do: (1) Change the address of the nabble forum from http://open-babel.957263.n4.nabble.com/ to http://forums.openbabel.org. Is this something you can easily do with your hosting provider Geoff? It involves "Go to your Domain Registrar and set the CNAME-record for your custom domain to n4.nabble.com. You are looking to modify the CNAME-Record of your domain, NOT the name servers -- You need to leave your name servers configured with your existing registrar." As well as looking better, this will allow a google custom search of openbabel.org to search the mailing list as well as the wiki and docs. (2) We can point users to the forum as an option instead of the mailing list, and we can even embed the forum on our wiki (I think). Apparently users like forums (while devs like mailing lists). This could allow us to get the best of both worlds. Note that this is nothing new here - the forum has existed for years, but it's somewhat hidden on the interwebs and so we only get the occassional query through it. We've never gotten any spam through it. Any thoughts? Noel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
