Andreas Poisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sat Mar 09, 2002 at 10:3948AM +0000
> Zur Erinnerung an die Worte von Andrew M. Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> [...]
> > When the mailing lists were started several years ago there was no
> > interest in having a web based mailing list. I have never made the
> > archives accessible on the web on the principle that the mailing list
> > subscribers know that it is not publicly archived.
>
> But how do you avoid getting the same questions by new subscribers
> again and again?
Since so many people don't read the WWWOFFLE FAQ I don't imagine that
having a mailing list archive is going to stop people asking the same
questions.
> > Before I did make the lists available I would want to make sure that
> > the subscribers were happy with this change.
>
> The archives at mail-archive.com exist without your agreement?
The wwwoffle-users archive on that web-site does seem to be violating
the copyright of everybody who has contributed to this mailing list.
It is a members-only list and was not intended to be a public one when
it was created. In practice there may not be a problem with this.
The list members haven't been asked for permission to publish the
archive and the list is not announced as being publicly archived so
there is a moral problem with publishing it.
> > There are also some proactical problems. It would be easiest to have
> > a web-server that also runs the mailing list as well as providing the
> > searchable archive for example.
>
> Would it be a financial or a technical problem?
I already spend a lot of time on WWWOFFLE, I don't want to spend a lot
of money on it as well. The main problem is the practical one of
finding a server with the required features and reliability,
transfering the web pages and mailing lists and updating the software
to point to the new location.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
