Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:26:45 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet? Message-ID: <200803022126.m22LQjqo067322@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <20080302210434.GB80576@hoeg.nl> References: <20080302210434.GB80576@hoeg.nl>
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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 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-BUG). > > 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 mailing lists, which should only be used for questions in the > rare cases where the person doesn't understand English, but mainly to > coordinate activities which have a national scope. > > These mailing lists could be used to discuss upcoming events and > conferences, but could also be used for discussions about translations > of the documentation. > > Is there a reason why such mailing lists don't exist yet? If not, what > kind of procedures should one follow to create a mailing list for a > certain language? > > --=20 > Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Only country I know of is Germany: In that case there is a DNS localy delegated namespace sub domain de.freebsd.org, & within that there were (last I looked) 7 lists run from a majordomo@ (not a mailman@ http:// interface though they do have a mirror of the standard http:// stuff ) Each country's localy oriented nationals can do their own thing within that. Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 is spam.
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