From owner-freebsd-www Fri Dec 13 08:36:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA27743 for www-outgoing; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:36:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA27737 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Fri, 13 Dec 96 17:35 MET Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for www@FreeBSD.ORG id ; Fri, 13 Dec 96 17:35 MET Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01711; Fri, 13 Dec 96 17:31:10 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9612131631.AA01711@wavehh.hanse.de> Subject: Re: Definition of purpose of -doc and -www mailing lists To: jfieber@indiana.edu Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:31:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, www@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Dec 13, 96 11:21:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > Could someone post (or start to formulate :-) a definition of what > > these two lists are good for? > > Well, it is true that the distinction between the two is not very > clear and if people think one would be better, we could try it > out. On the other side, with respect to managing mirror sites, > www and hubs may have a fair amount of overlap. > > The original purpose of www was the address to put at the bottom > of the web pages for comments and feedback. Do we want this > stuff going directly to doc@freebsd.org? Then, there is a fair For sure not. > amount of web technical administrivia that is really only > tangentially related to general doc stuff and really of no > interest to casual observers not directly involved in www > administration. > > Thoughts? My formulation: www@freebsd.org is a list to coordinate work doc@freebsd.org is a list to discuss designs and new ideas That was we can get input from people not on -www, but we don't bother them with "Would you please fix the link to...". Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36