RE: A News Group Perhaps.

2001-12-12 Thread Matthew Darcy 



Hi,

I was wondering if the mysql list had any plans to be put onto a news group.
I
have only been a memeber a short time but I have found %50 of the
information to be usefull. This does however mean that %50 is does not apply
to me at this time.

Due to this I get a lot of emails that are of no use to me at the moment.

I would be keen to talk about hosting this list as a news group to make it
browsable so myself and others could pick out infromation that is usefull to
me at this time. The email list could stay for mass contributions but I
would rather just browse for information I need.

Any thoughts on this ?

Thanks,

Matt.



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Re: A News Group Perhaps.

2001-12-12 Thread Carl Troein 


Tony Buckley writes:

 I am not a great fan of Newsgroups - they get spammed too much and messages
 get lost or archived.  Some ISPs carry them, some don't.  All too hit and
 miss for a resource on which I rely and am very grateful for.

I agree, but sadly enough the spam part is true for this list as
well. I completely agree with whomever proposed to have this
list modified to accept mails from subscribed people only, and
to require that subscribed email addresses are valid. I'm sure
it'd be possible to allow bug reports from people not on the
list. As for people who post questions to the list without being
subscribed, I think that they should either join and contribute
to and/or learn from the discussion, or just buy a support contract
instead.

Something that would be really great is if someone would gather
all relevant things that are being said on this list and make
one huge FAQ out of it. Carsten's FAQ is good, but it's not as
big as it could've been, had someone paid him to create it.
Then again, if MySQL would pay someone to make a really good
FAQ, they'd probably lose a lot of support contracts. Not that
I believe them to be that greedy/cynical, but anyway.

//C

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