National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello everyone, I was just speaking with another dutch FreeBSD user (and developer) about FreeBSD mailing lists. I know so far most of the national FreeBSD user groups have their own infrastructure that doesn't use any services from the FreeBSD project (for example, the Dutch BSD User Group, D-BU

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ed Schouten wrote: > > --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello everyone, > > I was just speaking with another dutch FreeBSD user (and developer) > about FreeBSD mailing lists. > > I kno

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:26:45PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Ed Schouten wrote: > > > > --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I was just speaking wit

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Julian H. Stacey, who wrote on Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:26:45PM +0100 .. > Ed Schouten wrote: > > > > --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I was jus

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread David Wolfskill
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:04:34PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > ... > Even though I am convinced the FreeBSD project should remain focused on > developing its flagship product, the operating system, I think the > community would have a great advantage if the project would already host > national mai

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Dan Langille
On Sun, March 2, 2008 4:04 pm, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was just speaking with another dutch FreeBSD user (and developer) > about FreeBSD mailing lists. > > I know so far most of the national FreeBSD user groups have their own > infrastructure that doesn't use any services from t

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Julian Stacey
> I think that the question dropped by Edw was more of why this service > wasn't offered from the FreeBSD mailman infrastructure. I think > that every country and state has its own mailman/majordomo/ezmlm/whatever > features, but none are ran centrally. > > Edwin Local language lists best left i

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:45:01AM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: > > I think that the question dropped by Edw was more of why this service > > wasn't offered from the FreeBSD mailman infrastructure. I think > > that every country and state has its own mailman/majordomo/ezmlm/whatever > > features, b

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Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

2008-03-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > As a mailman-owner hosting about 60 lists, I can tell you that it > is possible in mailman to set the owner of a list to a person who > wants to have the list and let them handle the bounces and unknown > messages. Ah Yes, sorry, I was forgetting that, all thre lists I